Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Computers, the Internet and Visual Basic.
2. Introduction to the Visual Basic Express 2008 IDE.
3. Introduction to Visual Basic Programming.
4. Introduction to Classes and Objects.
5. Control Statements: Part 1.
6. Control Statements: Part 2.
7. Methods: A Deeper Look.
8. Arrays.
9. Introduction to LINQ and Collections
10. Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look.
11. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance.
12. Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism.
13. Exception Handling.
14. Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms.
15. Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and XAML.
16. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Graphics.
17. Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions.
18. Files and Streams.
19. Extensible Markup Language (XML) and LINQ to XML.
20. Databases, LINQ to SQL
21. ASP.NET and ASP.NET Ajax.
22. Web Services and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
23. Microsoft® Silverlight™ and Rich Internet Applications.
24. Data Structures.and Generic Collections
Appendix A. Operator Precedence Chart.
Appendix B. Primitive Types.
Appendix C. Number Systems.
Appendix D. Using the Visual Studio® Debugger.
Appendix E. ATM Case Study Code.
Appendix F. UML 2: Additional Diagram Types.
Appendix G. ASCII Character Set.
Appendix H. Unicode®.