Visual Basic® .NET Notes for Professionals book

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Chapter 1: Getting started with Visual Basic .NET Language
Section 1.1: Hello World
Section 1.2: Hello World on a Textbox upon Clicking of a Button
Section 1.3: Region
Section 1.4: Creating a simple Calculator to get familiar with the interface and code
Chapter 2: Declaring variables
Section 2.1: Declaring and assigning a variable using a primitive type
Section 2.2: Levels of declaration – Local and Member variables
Section 2.3: Example of Access Modifiers
Chapter 3: Introduction to Syntax
Section 3.1: Intellisense Helper
Section 3.2: Declaring a Variable
Section 3.3: Comments
Section 3.4: Modifiers
Section 3.5: Object Initializers
Section 3.6: Collection Initializer
Section 3.7: Writing a function
Chapter 4: Operators
Section 4.1: String Concatenation
Section 4.2: Math
Section 4.3: Assignment
Section 4.4: Comparison
Section 4.5: Bitwise
Chapter 5: Conditions
Section 5.1: If operator
Section 5.2: IF...Then...Else
Chapter 6: Short-Circuiting Operators (AndAlso - OrElse)
Section 6.1: OrElse Usage
Section 6.2: AndAlso Usage
Section 6.3: Avoiding NullReferenceException
Chapter 7: Date
Section 7.1: Converting (Parsing) a String to a Date
Section 7.2: Converting a Date To A String
Chapter 8: Array
Section 8.1: Array definition
Section 8.2: Null Array Variables
Section 8.3: Array initialization
Section 8.4: Declare a single-dimension array and set array element values
Section 8.5: Jagged Array Initialization
Section 8.6: Non-zero lower bounds
Section 8.7: Referencing Same Array from Two Variables
Section 8.8: Multidimensional Array initialization
Chapter 9: Lists
Section 9.1: Add items to a List
Section 9.2: Check if item exists in a List
Section 9.3: Loop through items in list
Section 9.4: Create a List
Section 9.5: Remove items from a List
Section 9.6: Retrieve items from a List
Chapter 10: Enum
Section 10.1: GetNames()
Section 10.2: HasFlag()
Section 10.3: Enum definition
Section 10.4: Member initialization
Section 10.5: The Flags attribute
Section 10.6: GetValues()
Section 10.7: String parsing
Section 10.8: ToString()
Section 10.9: Determine whether a Enum has FlagsAttribute specified or not
Section 10.10: For-each flag (flag iteration)
Section 10.11: Determine the amount of flags in a flag combination
Section 10.12: Find the nearest value in a Enum
Chapter 11: Dictionaries
Section 11.1: Create a dictionary filled with values
Section 11.2: Loop through a dictionary and print all entries
Section 11.3: Checking for key already in dictionary - data reduction
Section 11.4: Getting a dictionary value
Chapter 12: Looping
Section 12.1: For...Next
Section 12.2: For Each...Next loop for looping through collection of items
Section 12.3: Short Circuiting
Section 12.4: While loop to iterate while some condition is true
Section 12.5: Nested Loop
Section 12.6: Do...Loop
Chapter 13: File Handling
Section 13.1: Write Data to a File
Section 13.2: Read All Contents of a File
Section 13.3: Write Lines Individually to a Text File using StreamWriter
Chapter 14: File/Folder Compression
Section 14.1: Adding File Compression to your project
Section 14.2: Creating zip archive from directory
Section 14.3: Extracting zip archive to directory
Section 14.4: Create zip archive dynamicaly
Chapter 15: Connection Handling
Section 15.1: Public connection property
Chapter 16: Data Access
Section 16.1: Read field from Database
Section 16.2: Simple Function to read from Database and return as DataTable
Chapter 17: Type conversion
Section 17.1: Converting Text of The Textbox to an Integer
Chapter 18: ByVal and ByRef keywords
Section 18.1: ByRef keyword
Section 18.2: ByVal keyword
Chapter 19: Console
Section 19.1: Console.ReadLine()
Section 19.2: Console.Read()
Section 19.3: Console.ReadKey()
Section 19.4: Prototype of command line prompt
Section 19.5: Console.WriteLine()
Chapter 20: Functions
Section 20.1: Defining a Function
Section 20.2: Defining a Function #2
Chapter 21: Recursion
Section 21.1: Compute nth Fibonacci number
Chapter 22: Random
Section 22.1: Declaring an instance
Section 22.2: Generate a random number from an instance of Random
Chapter 23: Classes
Section 23.1: Abstract Classes
Section 23.2: Creating classes
Chapter 24: Generics
Section 24.1: Create a generic class
Section 24.2: Instance of a Generic Class
Section 24.3: Define a 'generic' class
Section 24.4: Use a generic class
Section 24.5: Limit the possible types given
Section 24.6: Create a new instance of the given type
Chapter 25: Disposable objects
Section 25.1: Basic concept of IDisposable
Section 25.2: Declaring more objects in one Using
Chapter 26: NullReferenceException
Section 26.1: Empty Return
Section 26.2: Uninitialized variable
Chapter 27: Using Statement
Section 27.1: See examples under Disposable objects
Chapter 28: Option Strict
Section 28.1: Why Use It?
Section 28.2: How to Switch It On
Chapter 29: Option Explicit
Section 29.1: What is it?
Section 29.2: How to switch it on?
Chapter 30: Option Infer
Section 30.1: How to enable/disable it
Section 30.2: What is it?
Section 30.3: When to use type inference
Chapter 31: Error Handling
Section 31.1: Try...Catch...Finally Statement
Section 31.2: Creating custom exception and throwing
Section 31.3: Try Catch in Database Operation
Section 31.4: The Un-catchable Exception
Section 31.5: Critical Exceptions
Chapter 32: OOP Keywords
Section 32.1: Defining a class
Section 32.2: Inheritance Modifiers (on classes)
Section 32.3: Inheritance Modifiers (on properties and methods)
Section 32.4: MyBase
Section 32.5: Me vs MyClass
Section 32.6: Overloading
Section 32.7: Shadows
Section 32.8: Interfaces
Chapter 33: Extension methods
Section 33.1: Creating an extension method
Section 33.2: Making the language more functional with extension methods
Section 33.3: Getting Assembly Version From Strong Name
Section 33.4: Padding Numerics
Chapter 34: Reflection
Section 34.1: Retrieve Properties for an Instance of a Class
Section 34.2: Get a method and invoke it
Section 34.3: Create an instance of a generic type
Section 34.4: Get the members of a type
Chapter 35: Visual Basic 14.0 Features
Section 35.1: Null conditional operator
Section 35.2: String interpolation
Section 35.3: Read-Only Auto-Properties
Section 35.4: NameOf operator
Section 35.5: Multiline string literals
Section 35.6: Partial Modules and Interfaces
Section 35.7: Comments after implicit line continuation
Section 35.8: #Region directive improvements
Chapter 36: LINQ
Section 36.1: Selecting from array with simple condition
Section 36.2: Mapping array by Select clause
Section 36.3: Ordering output
Section 36.4: Generating Dictionary From IEnumerable
Section 36.5: Projection
Section 36.6: Getting distinct values (using the Distinct method)
Chapter 37: FTP server
Section 37.1: Download file from FTP server
Section 37.2: Download file from FTP server when login required
Section 37.3: Upload file to FTP server
Section 37.4: Upload file to FTP server when login required
Chapter 38: Working with Windows Forms
Section 38.1: Using the default Form instance
Section 38.2: Passing Data From One Form To Another
Chapter 39: Google Maps in a Windows Form
Section 39.1: How to use a Google Map in a Windows Form
Chapter 40: GDI+
Section 40.1: Draw Shapes
Section 40.2: Fill Shapes
Section 40.3: Text
Section 40.4: Create Graphic Object
Chapter 41: WinForms SpellCheckBox
Section 41.1: ElementHost WPF TextBox
Chapter 42: Using axWindowsMediaPlayer in VB.Net
Section 42.1: Adding the axWindowsMediaPlayer
Section 42.2: Play a Multimedia File
Chapter 43: WPF XAML Data Binding
Section 43.1: Binding a String in the ViewModel to a TextBox in the View
Chapter 44: Reading compressed textfile on-the-fly
Section 44.1: Reading .gz textfile line after line
Chapter 45: Threading
Section 45.1: Performing thread-safe calls using Control.Invoke()
Section 45.2: Performing thread-safe calls using Async/Await
Chapter 46: Multithreading
Section 46.1: Multithreading using Thread Class
Chapter 47: BackgroundWorker
Section 47.1: Using BackgroundWorker
Section 47.2: Accessing GUI components in BackgroundWorker
Chapter 48: Using BackgroundWorker
Section 48.1: Basic implementation of Background worker class
Chapter 49: Task-based asynchronous pattern
Section 49.1: Basic usage of Async/Await
Section 49.2: Using TAP with LINQ
Chapter 50: Debugging your application
Section 50.1: Debug in the console
Section 50.2: Indenting your debug output
Section 50.3: Debug in a text file
Chapter 51: Unit Testing in VB.NET
Section 51.1: Unit Testing for Tax Calculation
Section 51.2: Testing Employee Class assigned and derived Properties
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