Professional Visual Basic 2012 and .NET 4.5 Programming

Table of Contents

Part I: Language Constructs and Environment

Chapter 1: Visual Studio 2012

Visual Studio 2012

Visual Basic Keywords and Syntax

Project ProVB_VS2012

Enhancing a Sample Application

Useful Features of Visual Studio 2012

Summary

Chapter 2: The Common Language Runtime

Framework Profiles and Platforms

Elements of a .NET Application

Cross-Language Integration

IL Disassembler

Memory Management

Namespaces

Creating Your Own Namespaces

The My Keyword

Extending the My Namespace

Summary

Chapter 3: Objects and Visual Basic

Object-Oriented Terminology

Working With Visual Basic Types

Commands: Conditional

Value Types (Structures)

Reference Types (Classes)

Parameter Passing

Working with Objects

Creating Classes

Object-Oriented Concepts

Summary

Chapter 4: Custom Objects

Inheritance

Multiple Interfaces

Abstraction

Encapsulation

Polymorphism

Summary

Chapter 5: Advanced Language Constructs

Preparing the Sample Application

Lambda Expressions

Using Lambda Expressions

Async and Await

Iterators

Summary

Chapter 6: Exception Handling and Debugging

System.Exception

Handling Exceptions

Logging Errors

Summary

Part II: Business Objects and Data Access

Chapter 7: Arrays, Collections, and Generics

Arrays

Collections

Generics

Creating Generics

Summary

Chapter 8: Using XML with Visual Basic

An Introduction to XML

XML Serialization

System.Xml Document Support

LINQ to XML

XSL Transformations

XML ...