Visual Basic 2005: The Complete Reference

The Definitive Visual Basic 2005 Programming and Development Resource

Get full details on the powerful features of Visual Basic 2005 in this comprehensive one-stop guide that's filled with information not included in the online documentation. Programming expert Ron Petrusha begins by laying out what's new in Visual Basic 2005, such as its object-oriented programming capabilities. You'll find in-depth coverage of current language elements, coding techniques, and troubleshooting procedures.

Syntax explanations, code samples, and real-world examples illustrate each point along the way. Valuable appendices include information on constants and enumerations, compiling applications from the command line, and data conversion. This book is a particularly valuable desktop companion when coding and troubleshooting misbehaving code.

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Introduction to Visual Basic 2005

Data Types and Variables

Program Structure

Object-Oriented Programming

Event-Driven Programming

Exception Handling

The .NET Framework Class Library

Language Reference

My Namespace Reference

Appendix A: What's New in Visual Basic 2005

Appendix B: Language Elements by Category

Appendix C: Operators

Appendix D: Constants and Enumerations

Appendix E: The Visual Basic Command-Line Compiler

Appendix F: Conversions Reference

Appendix G: .NET Data Type Reference

Appendix H: Language Elements Removed from Visual Basic .NET

Index

New Features

Carefully documents the differences among previous versions of Visual Basic, including 6.0 & .NET v. 1 (as developers rely on older versions of software for longer, this feature will be particularly useful for them)

\Provides every code example showing how a particular VB language feature is implemented in C# (this is significant in that C# has many familiarities and differences between VB which are relevant to address since data shows that VB programmers are incorporating C# into their toolbag & viceversa)

Provides detailed documentation of undocumented functions within VB (there is a lot of useful but undocumented functionality available to developers in VB -- this will be the only source to find this information)