Table of Contents

Introduction to Visual Basic (in the printed book)

Introduction to Computers, the Internet and Visual Basic

Dive Into® Visual Basic Express 2010/li>

Introduction to Visual Basic Programming

Introduction to Problem Solving and Control Statements

Problem Solving and Control Statements: Part 2

Methods

Arrays

Files

Object-Oriented Programming: Classes and Objects 

Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance and Polymorphism

Introduction to LINQ

Databases and LINQ

Web App Development with ASP.NET

Windows Form GUI: A Deeper Look

Graphics and Multimedia

APPENDICES

Operator Precedence Chart.

Primitive Types. 

Number Systems.

ASCII Character Set.

Unicode®.

Index (of the printed book)

Companion Website Online Content
Chapters 16—27 and Appendix F are PDF documents posted online at the book’s Companion Website (located atwww.pearsonhighered.com/deitel).
16. Exception Handling: A Deeper Look
17. Strings and Characters: A Deeper Look
18. Files and Streams: A Deeper Look
19. GUI with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
20. WPF Graphics and Multimedia
21. XML and LINQ to XML
22. Web App Development with ASP.NET: A Deeper Look
23. Web Services
24. Silverlight and Rich Internet Applications
25. Collections and Generics
26. ATM Case Study, Part 1:Object-Oriented Design with the UML
27. ATM Case Study, Part 2: Implementing an Object-Oriented Design
F. Creating Console Applications

About the Author

Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he studied InformationTechnology. He holds the Java Certified Programmer and Java Certified Developer certifications, and has been designated by Sun Microsystems as a Java Champion. In 2012, he was named a Microsoft C# MVP. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered Java, C, C++, C# and Visual Basic courses to industry clients, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Lucent Technologies, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Stratus, Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation, One Wave, Hyperion Software, Adra Systems, Entergy, CableData Systems, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, Invensys and many more. He has also lectured on Java and C++ for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world’s best-selling programming language textbook authors.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 45 years of academic and industry experience in the computer field. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the MIT and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He has 20 years of college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He and Paul are the co-authors of several dozen books and multimedia packages and they are writing many more. With translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish, the Deitels’ texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of professional seminars to major corporations, academic institutions, government organizations and the military.

Reviews

"Addressing various business applications, the authors discuss the programming topics needed to implement those applications and provide simple, short, complete examples. Chapter 2 emphasizes how quickly readers can design Windows-based user interfaces." — Narges Kasiri, Oklahoma State University

"A well written, authoritative textbook for all those who want to learn Visual Basic programming from the ground up." — Dr. Hamid R. Nemati, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

"Contains the information a non-programmer needs to become a master Visual Basic programmer. Excellent code examples." — Jeffrey P. Scott, Blackhawk Technical College

"This book teaches you everything you need to know to build great applications the right way." — Joe Stagner, Microsoft