Successful Projects In Visual Basic .NET

This book will be useful for students on a wide range of courses and it assumes no knowledge of programming and cover everything needed to write a large program.

* Part One goes through all the main programming concepts carefully.
* Part Two covers a variety of topics which students may find useful in their project work.
* Part Three goes through the design and coding of a sample project.

Visual Basic .NET has introduced many changes to the language, and is now infused with the OOP (object-oriented programming) approach. Although it is possible to use the book without using the OOP approach covered in Chapters 17 and 18, many students will welcome the straightforward explanation of OOP concepts, the sample programs and the practice exercises. The concepts covered include:

* Data encapsulation
* Inheritance
* Polymorphism

1. Introducing Visual Basic.Net
2. Working with Controls
3. Working with Data
4. Displaying and Formatting
5. Console Applications
6. Selection
7. Loops
8. Handling Strings, Dates and Time
9. Procedures
10. Arrays
11. Records
12. Files

Part Two - Further Topics

13. Debugging and Error
14. Printing reports
15. Databases: Retrieving Data
16. Databases : Updating Data
17. OOP : Classes and Objects
18. OOP :Inheritance and Polymorphism

Part Three - The Projects

19. Introduction and Analysis
20. Design, Forms, Reports, Files and Data Validation
21. Design and System Maintenance:Modular Structure
22. Coding :Forms, Standard Modules and Utilities
23. Coding :membership
24. Coding :Starting a Game
25. Coding :Finishing a Game
26. Appraisal

D. Christopher