Visual Basic: A Beginner's Tutorial

Designed as a beginner's tutorial to the latest version of Visual Basic, this informative guide discusses the most important features of the language and teaches how to use the .NET Framework. Written with clarity and readability in mind, it introduces important programming concepts and explains the process of building real-world applications, both desktop and web-based. With the most comprehensive coverage possible in a book for beginners, it includes such topics as VB language syntax, object-oriented programming, working with numbers and dates, error handling, input output, generics, annotations, database access, security, and application deployment.



Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Your First Taste of Visual Basic

Chapter 2: Language Fundamentals

Chapter 3: Statements

Chapter 4: Objects and Classes

Chapter 5: Core Classes

Chapter 6: Inheritance

Chapter 7: Structures

Chapter 8: Error Handling

Chapter 9: Numbers and Dates

Chapter 10: Interfaces and Abstract Classes

Chapter 11: Enumerations

Chapter 12: Generics

Chapter 13: Collections

Chapter 14: Input/Output

Chapter 15: Windows Presentation Foundation

Chapter 16: Polymorphism

Chapter 17: ADO.NET

Appendix A: Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop

Appendix B: SQL Server 2012 Express