Developing Application with Visual Basic 2005

Windows Forms - introduction

Form controls
Events
Creating menus
Adding Non-Graphical Components

Form Events

Events in Visual Basic 2005
Control Events

Common Windows Forms Controls

RadioButton
CheckBox
Button
Label
TextBox
ListBox
LinkLabel
PictureBox
NumericUpdown
ProgressBar
CheckedListBox
ComboBox

Exceptions

Running Code Unconditionally
Raising Errors
Handling Unhandled Exceptions
Exception Classes

Strings and Dates

Data Types
The String Class
Working with Dates and Times

Accessing Data

Data connections
Executing Commands
Working with Data
ADO.NET
ADO.NET Providers

Data Binding

Data source creation
Data-Bound Forms
Binding Components and Controls
Related Tables
Lookup Tables
Search Capabilities
Filtering
Local Data
Validation

Data Controls

The BindingSource Control
The BindingNavigator Control
The ReportViewer Control
The DataGridView Control

I/O Tasks

System.IO Namespace
Selecting Files
Browsing for Folders
Path Information
Files and Directories
Stream-Based Objects

Project Settings in Visual Studio 2005

The Project Designer
Application Properties
Compilation Properties
Debugging Properties
Project References
Project Resources
Project Settings

The My Namespace

Application
Computer
User
Forms
Resources
Settings
WebServices

Debugging

Breakpoints and Stepping
Variables and Objects
Edit and Continue
Debugging Code in Assemblies
Tracing and Instrumenting Applications

Container Controls

GroupBox Control
Panel Control
Multiple Panels
Laying Out Panels
FlowLayoutPanel Control
TableLayoutPanel Control

Creating MDI Applications

MDI Parent and Child Forms
Managing Open Windows
Managing Menus
Open Forms

Menus and Toolbars

Working with the ToolStrips

Complex Controls

NotifyIcon Control
WebBrowser Control
MaskedTextBox Control
RichTextBox Control
TreeView and ListView Controls
MonthCalendar and DateTimePicker Controls

Creating Controls

Control Creation
Inheriting from an Existing Control
Drawing Custom Controls
Composite Controls

ToolBox Components

FileSystemWatcher Component
Process Component
EventLog Component
PerformanceCounter
Timer
ServiceController
BackgroundWorker

Interoperability

COM and .NET
Calling COM Objects from .NET
Calling .NET Assemblies from COM
Using Platform Invoke
Web Services

Publishing

Publishing an Application
Publish Options
Updating a Deployed Application
Publishing an Application
Publishing Updates
Security
Updates Managing