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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Programming and Visual Basic -- 1.1 Computer Systems: Hardware and Software -- 1.2 Programs and Programming Languages -- TUTORIAL 1-1: Running the Wage Calculator application -- TUTORIAL 1-2: Running an application that demonstrates event handlers -- 1.3 More about Controls and Programming -- TUTORIAL 1-3: Running an application that demonstrates various controls -- 1.4 The Programming Process -- 1.5 Visual Studio and Visual Studio Express (the Visual Basic Environment) -- TUTORIAL 1-4: Starting Visual Studio and setting up the environment -- TUTORIAL 1-5: Starting a new Visual Basic project -- TUTORIAL 1-6: Becoming familiar with the Visual Studio environment -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions and Exercises -- Programming Challenges -- Chapter 2 Creating Applications with Visual Basic -- 2.1 Focus on Problem Solving: Building the Directions Application -- TUTORIAL 2-1: Beginning the Directions application -- TUTORIAL 2-2: Adding a Label control to the Directions application -- TUTORIAL 2-3: Changing the Label's font size and style -- TUTORIAL 2-4: Deleting a control -- TUTORIAL 2-5: Inserting a PictureBox control -- TUTORIAL 2-6: Running the application -- TUTORIAL 2-7: Opening an existing project and becoming familiar with the Properties window -- 2.2 Focus on Problem Solving: Responding to Events -- TUTORIAL 2-8: Adding a Label control for the written directions -- TUTORIAL 2-9: Adding the Display Directions button and its Click event handler -- TUTORIAL 2-10: Adding the Exit button and its Click event handler -- TUTORIAL 2-11: Adding comments to the Directions project code -- TUTORIAL 2-12: Changing the text colors -- TUTORIAL 2-13: Setting the FormBorderStyle property and locking the controls in the Directions application -- 2.3 Modifying a Control's Text Property with Code.
TUTORIAL 2-14: Examining an application that displays messages in a Label control -- 2.4 The AutoSize, BorderStyle, and TextAlign Properties -- 2.5 Displaying User Messages -- TUTORIAL 2-15: Displaying message boxes -- 2.6 Clickable Images -- TUTORIAL 2-16: Writing Click event handlers for PictureBox controls -- 2.7 Using Visual Studio Help -- 2.8 Debugging Your Application -- TUTORIAL 2-17: Locating a compile error in design mode -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions and Exercises -- Programming Challenges -- Chapter 3 Variables and Calculations -- 3.1 Gathering Text Input -- TUTORIAL 3-1: Using a TextBox control -- TUTORIAL 3-2: Building the Date String application -- TUTORIAL 3-3: Using the Focus method -- TUTORIAL 3-4: Changing the tab order -- TUTORIAL 3-5: Setting access keys, accept, and cancel buttons -- 3.2 Variables and Data Types -- TUTORIAL 3-6: Assigning text to a variable -- 3.3 Performing Calculations -- 3.4 Mixing Different Data Types -- TUTORIAL 3-7: Examining a Simple Calculator application -- 3.5 Formatting Numbers and Dates -- TUTORIAL 3-8: Examining the Format Demo application -- 3.6 Class-Level Variables -- 3.7 Exception Handling -- TUTORIAL 3-9: Exception Demonstration -- TUTORIAL 3-10: Salary Calculator project with exception handling -- 3.8 Group Boxes -- 3.9 The Load Event -- 3.10 Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Building the Room Charge Calculator Application -- TUTORIAL 3-11: Beginning the Room Charge Calculator application -- TUTORIAL 3-12: Changing a label's colors -- 3.11 More about Debugging: Locating Logic Errors -- TUTORIAL 3-13: Single-stepping through an application's code at runtime -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions and Exercises -- Programming Challenges -- Chapter 4 Making Decisions -- 4.1 The Decision Structure -- 4.2 The If...Then Statement.
TUTORIAL 4-1: Examining an application that uses the If...Then statement -- 4.3 The If...Then...Else Statement -- TUTORIAL 4-2: Completing an application that uses the If...Then...Else statement -- 4.4 The If...Then...ElseIf Statement -- TUTORIAL 4-3: Completing an application that uses the If...Then...ElseIf statement -- 4.5 Nested If Statements -- TUTORIAL 4-4: Completing an application with a nested If statement -- 4.6 Logical Operators -- 4.7 Comparing, Testing, and Working with Strings -- TUTORIAL 4-5: Examining an application that performs string comparisons -- TUTORIAL 4-6: Completing a string searching application -- 4.8 The Select Case Statement -- TUTORIAL 4-7: Examining Crazy Al's Sales Commission Calculator application -- 4.9 Introduction to Input Validation -- TUTORIAL 4-8: Examining an application that uses TryParse for input validation -- 4.10 Focus on GUI Design: Radio Buttons and Check Boxes -- TUTORIAL 4-9: Completing an application with radio buttons and check boxes -- 4.11 Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Building the Health Club Membership Fee Calculator Application -- TUTORIAL 4-10: Building the Health Club Membership Fee Calculator application -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions and Exercises -- Programming Challenges -- Chapter 5 Lists and Loops -- 5.1 Input Boxes -- 5.2 List Boxes -- TUTORIAL 5-1: Creating list boxes -- 5.3 Introduction to Loops: The Do While Loop -- TUTORIAL 5-2: Completing an application that uses the Do While loop -- TUTORIAL 5-3: Modifying the Do While Demo application to use a posttest loop -- TUTORIAL 5-4: Using a loop to keep a running total -- TUTORIAL 5-5: Examining an application that uses a user-controlled loop -- 5.4 The Do Until and For...Next Loops -- TUTORIAL 5-6: Examining an application that uses the Do Until loop.
TUTORIAL 5-7: Examining an application that uses the For...Next loop -- TUTORIAL 5-8: Completing an application that uses the For...Next loop -- 5.5 Nested Loops -- 5.6 Multicolumn List Boxes, Checked List Boxes, and Combo Boxes -- TUTORIAL 5-9: Creating combo boxes -- 5.7 Random Numbers -- TUTORIAL 5-10: Creating the Coin Toss application -- 5.8 Simplifying Code with the With...End With Statement -- 5.9 ToolTips -- TUTORIAL 5-11: Adding ToolTips to an application -- 5.10 Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Building the Vehicle Loan Calculator Application -- TUTORIAL 5-12: Building the Vehicle Loan Calculator application -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions and Exercises -- Programming Challenges -- Chapter 6 Procedures and Functions -- 6.1 Procedures -- TUTORIAL 6-1: Examining an application with a procedure -- TUTORIAL 6-2: Creating and calling procedures -- 6.2 Passing Arguments to Procedures -- TUTORIAL 6-3: Examining an application that demonstrates passing an argument to a procedure -- TUTORIAL 6-4: Working with ByVal and ByRef -- 6.3 Functions -- TUTORIAL 6-5: Sale Price Calculator application -- 6.4 More about Debugging: Stepping Into, Over, and Out of Procedures and Functions -- TUTORIAL 6-6: Practicing the Step Into command -- TUTORIAL 6-7: Practicing the Step Over command -- TUTORIAL 6-8: Practicing the Step Out command -- 6.5 Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Building the Bagel and Coffee Price Calculator Application -- TUTORIAL 6-9: Building the Bagel House application -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions and Exercises -- Programming Challenges -- Chapter 7 Multiple Forms, Modules, and Menus -- 7.1 Multiple Forms -- TUTORIAL 7-1: Creating an application with two forms -- TUTORIAL 7-2: Completing an application that displays modal and modeless forms -- TUTORIAL 7-3: Accessing a control on a different form.
7.2 Modules -- TUTORIAL 7-4: Examining an application that uses a module -- 7.3 Menus -- TUTORIAL 7-5: Building a menu -- 7.4 Focus on Problem Solving: Building the High Adventure Travel Agency Price Quote Application -- TUTORIAL 7-6: Building the High Adventure Travel Agency Price Quote application -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions and Exercises -- Programming Challenges -- Chapter 8 Arrays and More -- 8.1 Arrays -- TUTORIAL 8-1: Using an array to hold a list of random lottery numbers -- TUTORIAL 8-2: Using an array to hold a list of names entered by the user -- TUTORIAL 8-3: Completing an application that uses array elements in a calculation -- 8.2 Array Processing Techniques -- TUTORIAL 8-4: Using parallel arrays -- 8.3 Procedures and Functions That Work with Arrays -- TUTORIAL 8-5: Examining an application that passes an array to procedures and functions -- 8.4 Multidimensional Arrays -- TUTORIAL 8-6: Completing the Seating Chart application -- 8.5 Focus on GUI Design: The Enabled Property and the Timer Control -- TUTORIAL 8-7: The Timer Demo -- TUTORIAL 8-8: Creating the Catch Me game -- 8.6 Focus on GUI Design: Anchoring and Docking Controls -- 8.7 Focus on Problem Solving: Building the Demetris Leadership Center Application -- TUTORIAL 8-9: Building the Demetris Leadership Center Sales Reporting application -- 8.8 Using Lists to Hold Information (Optional Topic) -- TUTORIAL 8-10: Building a List from User Input -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions and Exercises -- Programming Challenges -- Chapter 9 Files, Printing, and Structures -- 9.1 Using Files -- TUTORIAL 9-1: Completing an application that writes data to a file -- TUTORIAL 9-2: Completing an application that reads a file -- TUTORIAL 9-3: Examining an application that detects the end of a file.
9.2 The OpenFileDialog, SaveFileDialog, FontDialog, and ColorDialog Controls.
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Starting out with programming logic and design / / Tony Gaddis
