Visual Basic Cookbook

For seasoned .NET developers, as well as those seeking a simple and clear migration path from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic 2005, this cookbook delivers the definitive collection of problem-solving recipes for a broad range of Visual Basic programming tasks.

Filled with the ingredients developers need-code samples, instructions, and solutions to common problems-this book is the logical place for developers to start building projects and learning more about Visual Basic .NET.

This book will help you solve more than 300 of the most common and not-so-common tasks that working Visual Basic 2005 programmers face every day. If you're a seasoned .NET developer, beginning Visual Basic programmer, or a developer seeking a simple and clear migration path from VB6 to Visual Basic 2005, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook delivers a practical collection of problem-solving recipes for a broad range of Visual Basic programming tasks. The concise solutions and examples in the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook range from simple tasks to the more complex, organized by the types of problems you need to solve. Nearly every recipe contains a complete, documented code sample showing you how to solve the specific problem, as well as a discussion of how the underlying technology works and that outlines alternatives, limitations, and other considerations. As with all O'Reilly Cookbooks, each recipe helps you quickly understand a problem, learn how to solve it, and anticipate potential tradeoffs or ramifications. Useful features of the book include: Over 300 recipes written in the familiar O'Reilly Problem-Solution-Discussion format Hundreds of code snippets, examples, and complete solutions available for download VB6 updates to alert VB6 programmers to code-breaking changes in Visual Basic 2005 Recipes that target Visual Basic 2005 features not included in previous releases Code examples covering everyday data manipulation techniques and language fundamentals Advanced projects focusing on multimedia and mathematical transformations using linear algebraic methods Specialized topics covering files and file systems, printing, and databases In addition, you'll find chapters on cryptography and compression, graphics, and special programming techniques. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook is sure to save you time, serving up the code you need, when you need it.

Versi pertama dari Visual Basic dikenalkan pada tahun 1991. Sebelum itu, penulisan kode untuk antarmuka GUI pada sebuah aplikasi bukanlah pekerjaan yang mudah. Ditambah lagi, pemahaman akan grafika, memori, dan pemanggilan sistem yang kompleks sangat diperlukan. Visual Basic merupakan hal yang revolusioner karena secara signifikan mempermudah proses ini. Dengan Visual Basic, programer dapat merancang antarmuka pengguna pada sebuah aplikasi secara visual. Visual Basic kemudian akan membangkitkan secara otomatis kode yang diperlukan untuk menampilkan dan mengoperasikan antarmuka. Pada 2002, Microsoft merilis sebuah platform baru yang dikenal dengan .NET. Platform .NET memuat beberapa layer perangkat lunak yang ditempatkan di atas sistem operasi dan menyediakan lingkungan yang terkelola dan aman. Selain itu, .NET juga menyediakan beberapa teknologi baru untuk menciptakan program-program berbasis-internet yang menyediakan layanan Web. Dengan begitu, programer dapat menulis aplikasi desktop maupun aplikasi Web untuk platform .NET. VB.NET tidak hanya versi baru dari VB 6. Namun VB.NET merupakan sebuah lingkungan pemrograman yang sama sekali baru. Sedimikian dramatisnya perubahan yang ada, sehingga program-program yang ditulis dengan VB versi terhadulu tidak kompatibel dengan VB.NET. Microsoft menyediakan utilitas yang dapat digunakan untuk mengkonversi aplikasi Visual Basic menjadi sintaks VB.NET yang baru, meskipun hasilnya tidak selalu berhasil. Hal ini dirasa memberatkan oleh para pengembang Visual Basic, tetapi Microsoft beralasan bahwa perubahan tersebut diperlukan untuk memastikan bahwa Visual Basic dapat berevolusi menjadi bahasa pemrograman profesional dan modern. Microsoft terus melanjutkan perbaikan terhadap Visual Basic secara reguler dengan merilis versi-versi yang baru: Visual Basic 2003, Visual Basic 2005, Visual Basic, 2008, Visual Basic 2010, Visual Basic 2012, dan Visual Basic 2013. Buku ini ditulis dengan Visual Basic 2012. Versi ini memuat banyak perbaikan sehingga dijuluki sebagai bahasa pemrograman yang sangat profesional. Banyak fitur dikenalkan pada buku ini dengan pendekatan penyelesaian kasus demi kasus. Melalui penyelesaian kasus, buku ini diharapkan dapat mengatrol kompetensi pemrograman dari pembelajar awal yang sering mengalami kesulitan dalam memahami konsep dan paradigma dasar dari bahasa pemrograman level-tinggi. Buku ini dimaksudkan sebagai buku mandiri, yang memuat lebih dari 130 contoh kasus. Beberapa sasaran ketika buku teks ini ditulis adalah: Mengembangkan bab-bab secara terfokus. Daripada merangkum banyak bab dengan kedalaman permukaan saja, buku ini hanya difokuskan pada subjek-subjek bahasan penting. Menyelesaikan kasus demi kasus. Meskipun data uji pada program tidak merepresentasikan data riil, tetapi kekayaan penyelesaian kasus pada buku ini mengilustrasikan banyak teknik pemrograman yang sangat dibutuhkan para pembejalar. Menjadikan buku teks yang informatif dan ringkas. Pada tiap fokus bahasan, buku ini tidak bertele-tele, langsung ke sasaran dengan penyajian kasus. Memuat topik database dan aplikasi Web. Buku ini juga memuat topik bahasan database dan aplikasi Web yang banyak dibutuhkan bagi para pengembang Visual Basic. Berikut merupakan topik-topik bahasan yang disajikan pada buku ini: Bab. 1 Pengantar Visual Basic Bab 2. Keputusan Bab 3. Repetisi Bab 4. Prosedur dan Fungsi Bab 5. Array Bab 6. File dan Struktur Bab 7. Struktur Data Bab 8. Pustaka .NET Bab 9. Multiple Form, Module, dan Menu Bab 10. Aplikasi Web Bab 11. Bekerja dengan Database Bab 12. Grafika, Animasi, Suara, dan DragDrop

Visual Basic 2008 Recipes is a book of ready-made coding solutions for programmers who don't want spend a lot of time reading. Each chapter addresses a specific problem-domain such as multimedia, database access, XML manipulation, etc. Each chapter then presents a number of common problems, with a solution following each problem. Readers appreciate the recipe format, because they can look up a problem, read one to three pages, implement the solution, and then get on with their work. Recipe books are ideal for those who want to spend their days doing, not reading.

After reading Programming the Web with Visual Basic .NET, developers will understand how to build and deploy top quality, professionally designed, highly usable Web applications using Visual Basic .NET.

Provides information on Web site development using ASP.NET 2.0.

Use Roslyn as a service to write powerful extensions and tools and use them in Visual Studio to improve code quality and maintain your source code more effectively. About This Book Use Roslyn extensions and tools in Visual Studio to enforce "house rules" on code and fix security and performance vulnerabilities in your code. Write Roslyn extensions using the Roslyn service API to help developers enforce conventions and design idioms. Improve developer productivity by using Roslyn-based agile development features in Visual Studio, such as live unit testing, C# interactive and scripting. Contribute to the C# language and compiler tool chain to analyze and edit code. Who This Book Is For .NET Developers and architects, who are interested in taking full advantage of the Roslyn based extensions and tools to improve the development processes, will find this book useful. Roslyn contributors, i.e. the producers and C# community developers, will also find this book useful What You Will Learn Write extensions to analyze source code and report warnings and errors. Edit C# source code to fix compiler/analyzer diagnostics or refactor source code. Improve code maintenance and readability by using analyzers and code fixes. Catch security and performance issues by using PUMA scan analyzers and FxCop analyzers. Perform Live Unit tests in Visual Studio. Use C# interactive and scripting in Visual Studio. Design a new C# language feature and implement various compiler phases for a new language feature. Write command line tools to analyze and edit C# code. In Detail Open-sourcing the C# and Visual Basic compilers is one of the most appreciated things by the .NET community, especially as it exposes rich code analysis APIs to analyze and edit code. If you want to use Roslyn API to write powerful extensions and contribute to the C# developer tool chain, then this book is for you. Additionally, if you are just a .NET developer and want to use this rich Roslyn-based functionality in Visual Studio to improve the code quality and maintenance of your code base, then this book is also for you. This book is divided into the following broad modules: Writing and consuming analyzers/fixers (Chapters 1 - 5): You will learn to write different categories of Roslyn analyzers and harness and configure analyzers in your C# projects to catch quality, security and performance issues. Moving ahead, you will learn how to improve code maintenance and readability by using code fixes and refactorings and also learn how to write them. Using Roslyn-based agile development features (Chapters 6 and 7): You will learn how to improve developer productivity in Visual Studio by using features such as live unit testing, C# interactive and scripting. Contributing to the C# language and compiler tool chain (Chapters 8 - 10): You will see the power of open-sourcing the Roslyn compiler via the simple steps this book provides; thus, you will contribute a completely new C# language feature and implement it in the Roslyn compiler codebase. Finally, you will write simple command line tools based on the Roslyn service API to analyze and edit C# code. Style and approach This book takes a recipe-based approach, teaching you how to perform various hacks with the Compiler API in your hands.

This guide is strikingly different from other books on Microsoft ADO.NET. Rather than load you down with theory, the new edition of ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook gives you more than 200 coding solutions and best practices for real problems you're likely to face with this technology using Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET 3.5 platform. Organized to help you find the topic and specific recipe you need quickly and easily, this book is more than just a handy compilation of cut-and-paste C# code. ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook also offers clear explanations of how and why each code solution works, and warns you of potential pitfalls so you can learn to adapt the book's problem-solving techniques to different situations. This collection of timesaving recipes covers vital topics including: Connecting to data Retrieving and managing data Transforming and analyzing data Modifying data Binding data to .NET user interfaces Optimizing .NET data access Enumerating and maintaining database objects Maintaining database integrity Ideal for ADO.NET programmers at all levels, from the relatively inexperienced to the most sophisticated, this new edition covers the significant 3.5 upgrade, including new programming tools such as LINQ. ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook offers a painless way for those of you who prefer to learn by doing when it comes to expanding your skills and productivity.

Written for developers who are up-to-speed with ASP.NET in general, this text provides a task reference for use while developing web applications. It demonstrates tricks, solutions and best practices to use within applications.