CLEARLY VISUAL BASIC® PROGRAMMING WITH MICROSOFT® VISUAL BASIC® 2010

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
CHAPTER 1 I Am Not a Control Freak! (Control Structures) . . . . . . . . . . 1
CHAPTER 2 First You Need to Plan the Party (Problem-Solving Process) . . . 11
CHAPTER 3 I Need a Tour Guide (Introduction to Visual Basic 2010) . . . . . 27
CHAPTER 4 Do It Yourself Designing (Designing Interfaces) . . . . . . . . . 49
CHAPTER 5 The Secret Code (Assignment Statements) . . . . . . . . . . . 67
CHAPTER 6 Where Can I Store This? (Variables and Constants) . . . . . . . 81
CHAPTER 7 What’s Wrong with It? (Syntax and Logic Errors) . . . . . . . . .101
CHAPTER 8 Decisions, Decisions, Decisions (Selection Structure) . . . . . .115
CHAPTER 9 Time to Leave the Nest (Nested Selection Structures) . . . . . .139
CHAPTER 10 So Many Paths . . . So Little Time (Multiple-Alternative
Selection Structures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
CHAPTER 11 Testing, Testing . . . 1, 2, 3 (Selecting Test Data) . . . . . . . .183
CHAPTER 12 How Long Can This Go On? (Pretest Loops) . . . . . . . . . . .203
CHAPTER 13 Do It, Then Ask Permission (Posttest Loops) . . . . . . . . . .231
CHAPTER 14 Let Me Count the Ways (Counter-Controlled Loops) . . . . . . .241
CHAPTER 15 I’m on the Inside; You’re on the Outside (Nested Loops) . . . . .261
CHAPTER 16 I Hear You Are Breaking Up (Sub Procedures) . . . . . . . . . .279
CHAPTER 17 Talk to Me (Function Procedures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
CHAPTER 18 A Ray of Sunshine (One-Dimensional Arrays) . . . . . . . . . .319
CHAPTER 19 Parallel and Dynamic Universes (More on One-Dimensional
Arrays) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .341
CHAPTER 20 Table Tennis, Anyone? (Two-Dimensional Arrays) . . . . . . . .363
CHAPTER 21 Building Your Own Structure (Structures) . . . . . . . . . . . .383

CHAPTER 22 I’m Saving for the Future (Sequential Access Files) . . . . . . .399
CHAPTER 23 The String Section (String Manipulation) . . . . . . . . . . . .417
CHAPTER 24 I’m Suffering from Information Overload (Access Databases) . . .439
CHAPTER 25 The Missing “LINQ” (Querying a Database) . . . . . . . . . . .461
CHAPTER 26 I Love This Class (Creating a Class) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .475
CHAPTER 27 Getting “Web-ified” (Web Applications) . . . . . . . . . . . . .497
APPENDIX A Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .527
APPENDIX B Answers to Mini-Quizzes and TRY THIS Exercises . . . . . . . .529
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .569