Programming Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Visual Basic.Net

Charles Petzold, one of the world's leading Windows development experts, has revised his popular PROGRAMMING MICROSOFT® WINDOWS® WITH C# book for developers who work in Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET! The best-selling author shows how to use Visual Basic .NET to get the most out of Windows Forms—the next-generation Windows programming class library. You'll discover how to use the powerful, .NET-enabled version of Visual Basic to create dynamic user interfaces and graphical outputs for Windows applications. With dozens of examples of client applications to illustrate common techniques and plenty of no-nonsense advice on best programming practices, you'll learn how to go far beyond the basics with Visual Basic .NET. Topics covered in this guide include:
• A tour of Visual Basic .NET
• Hello, Windows Forms
• Essential structures
• An exercise in text output
• Lines, curves, and area fills
• Tapping into the keyboard
• Pages and transforms
• Taming the mouse
• Text and fonts
• The timer and time
• Images and bitmaps
• Buttons, labels, and scrolls
• Béziers and other splines
• Menus
• Paths, regions, and clipping
• Dialog boxes
• Brushes and pens
• Edit, list, and spin controls
• Font fun
• Toolbars and status bars
• Printing
• Tree view and List view
• Metafiles
• Clip, drag, and drop

The Basics

• 1 Console Thyself
• 2 Hello, Windows Forms
• 3 Essential Structures
• 4 An Exercise in Text Output

Graphics

• 5 Lines, Curves, and Area Fills
• 7 Pages and Transforms
• 9 Text and Fonts
• 11 Images and Bitmaps
• 13 Béziers and Other Splines
• 15 Paths, Regions, and Clipping
• 17 Brushes and Pens
• 19 Font Fun
• 21 Printing
• 23 Metafiles

The User Interface

• 6 Tapping into the Keyboard
• 8 Taming the Mouse
• 10 The Timer and Time
• 12 Buttons and Labels and Scrolls
• 14 Menus
• 16 Dialog Boxes
• 18 Edit, List, and Spin
• 20 Toolbars and Status Bars
• 22 Tree View and List View
• 24 Clip, Drag, and Drop

Appendices

• A Files and Streams
• B Math Class
• C String Theory