Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 or Computer Science Illuminated

Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: The Language

Author: Francesco Balena

Get the expert insights, indispensable reference, and practical instruction needed to exploit the core language features and capabilities in Visual Basic 2005. Well-known Visual Basic programming author Francesco Balena expertly guides you through the fundamentals, including modules, keywords, and inheritance, and builds your mastery of more-advanced topics such as delegates, assemblies, and My Namespace. Combining in-depth reference with extensive, hands-on code examples and best-practices advice, this Core Reference delivers the key resources you need to develop professional-level programming skills for smart clients and the Web.

Table of Contents:

1	Introducing the Microsoft .NET framework	3
2	Basic language concepts	15
3	Control flow and error handling	85
4	Using Visual Studio 2005	125
5	Debugging Visual Basic applications	181
6	Class fundamentals	239
7	Delegates and events	281
8	Inheritance	307
9	Object lifetime	341
10	Interfaces	369
11	Generics	397
12	.NET Basic types	439
13	Arrays and collections	489
14	Regular expressions	543
15	Files, directories, and streams	583
16	The My Namespace	625
17	Assemblies and resources	673
18	Reflection	719
19	Custom attributes	777
20	Threads	823
21	Serialization	877
22	PInvoke and COM Interop	909

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Computer Science Illuminated

Author: Nell B Dal

Computer Science Illuminated is designed to present a breadth first coverage of the field of Computer Science. Readers are exposed to all areas of computer science, starting at the information layer then working outward through the hardware layer, programming layer, operating systems layer, application layer, communication layer, and finally ending with a discussion of the limitations of computing. This excellently crafted book draws upon the teaching experience of two of today's most respected Computer Science Educators: Nell Dale and John Lewis. Students who will continue studying computer science acquire a solid foundation from Computer Science Illuminated , and students for whom this is their only computer science course leave with a meaningful understanding of how computing systems work.

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Using an onion as an analogy, this textbook for a CS-0 course walks through the function of each layer in a computer system. Dale (University of Texas) and Lewis (Villanova) describe the binary number system, the hardware components, the major programming languages, the operating system, software applications, and networks. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR