GETTING STARTED WITH VB.NET

Integrated Development Environment, IDE Components, IDE Menu , Toolbar Window, Solution Explorer, Properties Window , Output Window , Common Window Task List Window, Environment Options, Few Common Properties, Few Common Events, Few Common Methods, Building A Console Application

VISUAL BASIC THE LANGUAGE

Variables, Constants, Arrays, Variables As Objects, Flow-Control Statements.

WRITING AND USING PROCEDURES

Modular Coding, Subroutines, Functions, Calling Functions And Subroutines, Arguments, Argument- Passing Mechanisms, Event-Hander Arguments, Passing An Unknown Number Of Arguments, Named Arguments, More Types Of Function Return Values, Overloading Functions

WORKING WITH FORMS

Appearance Of Forms, Loading And Showing Forms, Designing Menus, Building Dynamic Forms At Runtime.

BASIC WINDOWS CONTROLS

Text Box Control, List Box , Checked List Box , And Combo Box Controls, Scroll Bar And Track Bar Control, Common Dialog Controls , Rich Text Box Control .

HANDING STRINGS, CHARACTERS, AND DATES

Handing Strings And Characters, Char Class, String Class, String Builder Class, Vb.Net At Work The String Reversal Project, Vb.Net At Work The Count Words Project, Handling Dates, Date Time Class, Time Span Class, Vb.Net At Work Timing Operations .

WORKING WITH FOLDERS AND FILES

Accessing Folders and Files, Accessing Files, File System Watcher Component.

PRINTING WITH VB.NET

Printing Objects, Printer and Page Properties, Printer Examples.

THE TREE VIEW AND LIST VIEW CONTROLS

Examining The Advanced Controls, Tree View Control, List View Control, Saving A Tree’s Nodes To Disk.

ERROR HANDLING AND DEBUGGING

Types of Errors, Exceptions And Structured Exception Handling, Debugging.

THE MULTIPLE DOCUMENT INTERFACE

Mdi Applications the Basics

DATABASE ARCHITECTURE AND BASIC CONCEPTS

What Is A Data Base, Server Explorer, Structured Query Language, Query Builder

BUILDING DATABASE APPLICATIONS WITH ADO.NET

Architecture of Ado.Net, Creating A Dataset, Programming The Data Adapter Object, Command Data Reader Objects.

PROGRAMMING THE ADO.NET OBJECTS

Structure of Data Set, Data Form Wizard, Transactions Update Operations, Building And Using Custom Data Sets.