Visual Basic 2015 in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

Description

• Copyright 2016
• Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
• Pages: 608
• Edition: 1st

• eBook (Watermarked)
• ISBN-10: 0-13-419184-6
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-419184-3

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to build complete, reliable, and modern Windows applications with Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2015. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a strong foundation for success with every aspect of VB 2015 development.

Notes present interesting pieces of information.

Tips offer advice or teach an easier way to do something.

Cautions advise you about potential problems and help you steer clear of disaster.

Learn How To

• Master VB 2015 by building a complete feature-rich application
• Navigate VB 2015 and discover its new shortcuts
• Work with objects, collections, and events
• Build attractive, highly-functional user interfaces
• Make the most of forms, controls, modules, and procedures
• Efficiently store data and program databases
• Make decisions in code
• Use powerful object-oriented techniques
• Work with graphics and text files
• Manipulate filesystems and the Registry
• Add email support
• Create efficient modules and reusable procedures
• Interact effectively with users
• Write code to preview and print documents
• Debug with VB 2015’s improved breakpoint features
• Distribute your software

Download all examples and source code presented in this book from informit.com/title/9780672337451 as they become available.

Who Should Read This Book

Those who have little or no programming experience or who might be picking up Visual Basic as a second language.

Bug Alert

Description:Changing the startup form's name in a VB WinForms app does not update the "Startup form" #4517

Explanation:In the latest Visual Basic update on GitHub, Microsoft accidentally introduced a significant bug that you should be aware of. In the Visual Basic project properties dialog on one of the tabs (Application), is a drop down box for selecting the "startup object". This can be either a Main method or a System.Windows.Forms instance (or System.Windows.Window for WPF). When you do a rename on a form (say from the code editor in source or from the solution explorer) currently set as the startup form the rename doesn't cascade to the startup object project property cause the project to enter an invalid state where the user must now manually reset this project property from the now nonexistent Form to the new name. This is a huge annoyance.

The fix for the bug (until Microsoft addresses) can be found here:
http://www.jamesfoxall.com/teach-visual-basic-2015-errata/

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Sample Content

Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Part I: The Visual Basic 2015 Environment

Hour 1: Jumping in with Both Feet: A Visual Basic 2015 Programming Tour . 1

Starting Visual Basic 2015 . . . . . . . . . . 2

创建a New Project . . . . . . . . . . 3

Understanding the Visual Studio 2015 Environment . . . . . 6

Changing the Characteristics of Objects . . . . . . . 7

Adding Controls to a Form. . . . . . . . . 13

Designing an Interface . . . . . . . . . . 15

Writing the Code Behind an Interface. . . . . . . 20

Running a Project . . . . . . . . . . . 24

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 27

常见问题28

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Hour 2: Navigating Visual Basic 2015 . . . . . . . . 31

Using the Visual Basic 2015 Start Page . . . . . . . 31

Navigating and Customizing the Visual Basic Environment . . . 34

Working with Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . 40

Adding Controls to a Form Using the Toolbox . . . . . . 41

Setting Object Properties Using the Properties Window . . . . 43

Managing Projects . . . . . . . . . . . 50

A Quick-and-Dirty Programming Primer. . . . . . . 57

Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . 59

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 60

常见问题60

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Hour 3: Understanding Objects and Collections . . . . . . 63

Understanding Objects . . . . . . . . . . 64

Understanding Properties. . . . . . . . . . 64

Understanding Methods. . . . . . . . . . 72

Building a Simple Object Example Project . . . . . . . 73

Understanding Collections . . . . . . . . . 79

Using the Object Browser . . . . . . . . . . 82

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 84

常见问题84

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Hour 4: Understanding Events . . . . . . . . . . 87

Understanding Event-Driven Programming . . . . . . 87

Building an Event Example Project . . . . . . . . 97

Keeping Event Names Current . . . . . . . . 103

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 103

常见问题104

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Part II: Building a User Interface

Hour 5: Building Forms: The Basics . . . . . . . . 107

Changing a Form’s Name . . . . . . . . . 108

Changing a Form’s Appearance . . . . . . . . 109

Showing and Hiding Forms . . . . . . . . . 122

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 128

常见问题128

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Hour 6: Building Forms: Advanced Techniques . . . . . . 131

Working with Controls . . . . . . . . . . 131

创建Topmost Nonmodal Windows. . . . . . . 151

创建Transparent Forms . . . . . . . . . 151

创建Scrollable Forms . . . . . . . . . 152

创建MDI Forms . . . . . . . . . . 154

Setting the Startup Form . . . . . . . . . 158

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 159

常见问题160

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Hour 7: Working with Traditional Controls . . . . . . . 163

Displaying Static Text with the Label Control. . . . . . 163

Allowing Users to Enter Text Using a Text Box. . . . . . 164

创建Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . 172

创建Containers and Groups of Option Buttons . . . . . 176

Displaying a List with the List Box . . . . . . . . 180

创建Drop-Down Lists Using the Combo Box . . . . . 188

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 190

常见问题191

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Hour 8: Using Advanced Controls. . . . . . . . . 193

创建Timers . . . . . . . . . . . 193

创建Tabbed Dialog Boxes . . . . . . . . 197

Storing Pictures in an Image List Control . . . . . . 200

Building Enhanced Lists Using the List View Control . . . . 202

创建Hierarchical Lists Using the Tree View Control . . . . 207

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 211

常见问题212

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Hour 9: Adding Menus and Toolbars to Forms . . . . . . 215

Building Menus . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Using the Toolbar Control . . . . . . . . . 229

创建a Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . 235

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 237

常见问题237

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Part III: Making Things Happen—Programming

Hour 10: Creating and Calling Code Procedures . . . . . . 239

创建Visual Basic Code Modules . . . . . . . 239

Writing Code Procedures . . . . . . . . . 242

Calling Code Procedures . . . . . . . . . 248

Exiting Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . 254

Avoiding Infinite Recursion . . . . . . . . . 255

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 256

常见问题257

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 258

小时11:使用常量、数据类型、变量、一个nd Arrays . . . . 259

Understanding Data Types. . . . . . . . . 260

Defining and Using Constants . . . . . . . . 263

Declaring and Referencing Variables . . . . . . . 266

Working with Arrays . . . . . . . . . . 273

Determining Scope . . . . . . . . . . 276

Declaring Variables of Static Scope . . . . . . . . 281

Using Variables in Your Picture Viewer Project. . . . . . 282

Renaming Variables . . . . . . . . . . 286

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 287

常见问题288

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Hour 12: Performing Arithmetic, String Manipulation, and Date/Time Adjustments . .. 291

Performing Basic Arithmetic Operations with Visual Basic . . . 291

Comparing Equalities . . . . . . . . . . 295

Understanding Boolean Logic. . . . . . . . . 296

Manipulating Strings. . . . . . . . . . 298

Working with Dates and Times . . . . . . . . 304

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 309

常见问题310

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Hour 13: Making Decisions in Visual Basic Code . . . . . . 313

Making Decisions Using If...Then. . . . . . . 313

Branching Within a Procedure Using GoTo . . . . . . 324

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 326

常见问题327

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Hour 14: Looping for Efficiency . . . . . . . . . 329

Looping a Specific Number of Times Using For...Next . . . . 329

Using Do...Loop to Loop an Indeterminate Number of Times . . . 336

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 341

常见问题341

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Hour 15: Debugging Your Code . . . . . . . . . 343

Adding Comments to Your Code . . . . . . . . 344

Identifying the Two Basic Types of Errors . . . . . . 346

Using Visual Basic’s Debugging Tools . . . . . . . 349

Breaking Only When a Condition Is Met. . . . . . . 358

Breaking Only When a Breakpoint Is Hit a Certain Number of Times . 359

Sending Messages to the Output Window Using Tracepoints. . . 360

Writing an Error Handler Using Try...Catch...Finally . . . 360

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 368

常见问题368

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Hour 16: Designing Objects Using Classes . . . . . . . 371

Understanding Classes. . . . . . . . . . 372

Instantiating Objects from Classes . . . . . . . . 381

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 388

常见问题388

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Hour 17: Interacting with Users . . . . . . . . . 391

Displaying Messages Using the MessageBox.Show() Function. . . 391

创建Custom Dialog Boxes. . . . . . . . 398

Using InputBox() to Get Information from a User . . . . . 401

Interacting with the Keyboard . . . . . . . . 404

Using the Common Mouse Events . . . . . . . . 406

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 409

常见问题410

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Hour 18: Working with Graphics . . . . . . . . . 413

Understanding the Graphics Object . . . . . . . 413

Working with Pens . . . . . . . . . . 416

Using System Colors . . . . . . . . . . 417

Working with Rectangles . . . . . . . . . 421

Drawing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Drawing Text . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Persisting Graphics on a Form . . . . . . . . 425

Building a Graphics Project Example . . . . . . . 425

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 432

常见问题432

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Part IV: Working with Data

Hour 19: Performing File Operations . . . . . . . . 435

Using the OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog Controls . . . 435

Manipulating Files with the File Object. . . . . . . 443

Manipulating Directories with the Directory Object . . . . 452

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 453

常见问题454

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Hour 20: Working with the Registry and Text Files . . . . . . 457

Working with the Registry . . . . . . . . . 457

Reading and Writing Text Files . . . . . . . . 470

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 480

常见问题481

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Hour 21: Working with a Database . . . . . . . . 483

Introducing ADO.NET . . . . . . . . . . 484

Manipulating Data . . . . . . . . . . 491

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 502

常见问题502

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Hour 22: Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Preparing the Picture Viewer Project . . . . . . . 506

Printing and Previewing a Document . . . . . . . 509

Changing Printer and Page Settings . . . . . . . 519

Scaling Images to Fit a Page . . . . . . . . . 522

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 527

常见问题528

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 528

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 528

Hour 23: Sending Emails. . . . . . . . . . 529

Understanding the Classes Used to

Send Emails . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Sending Email from Your Picture Viewer Application . . . . 530

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 543

常见问题544

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Part V: Deploying Solutions and Beyond

Hour 24: Deploying Applications . . . . . . . . . 545

Understanding ClickOnce Technology. . . . . . . 545

Using the Publish Wizard to Create a ClickOnce Application . . . 547

Testing Your Picture Viewer ClickOnce Install Program . . . . 552

Uninstalling an Application You’ve Distributed . . . . . 553

Setting Advanced Options for Creating ClickOnce Programs. . . 556

总结 . . . . . . . . . .. . 557

常见问题557

Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Appendix A: The 10,000-Foot View . . . . . . . . 559

TOC, 9780672337451, 7/19/2015

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