Pro VB 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform

Part 1. Introducing Visual Basic 2008 and the .NET Platform

1. The Philosophy of .NET

2. Building Visual Basic 2008 Applications

Part 2. Core VB Programming Constructs

3. VB 2008 Programming Constructs, Part I

4. VB 2008 Programming Constructs, Part II

5. Designing Encapsulated Class Types

6. Understanding Inheritance and Polymorphism

7. Understanding Structured Exception Handling

8. Understanding Object Lifetime

Part 3. Advanced VB Programming Constructs

9. Working with Interface Types

10. Collections, Generics, and Nullable Data Types

11. Delegates, Events, and Lambdas

12. Operator Overloading and Custom Conversion Routines

13. VB 2008-Specific Language Features

14. An Introduction to LINQ

Part 4. Programming with .NET Assemblies

15. Introducing .NET Assemblies

16. Type Reflection, Late Binding, and Attribute-Based Programming

17. Processes, AppDomains, and Object Contexts

18. Building Multithreaded Applications

19. .NET Interoperability Assemblies

Part 5. Introducing the .NET Base Class Libraries

20. File and Directory Manipulation

21. Introducing Object Serialization

22. ADO.NET Part I: The Connected Layer

23. ADO.NET Part II: The Disconnected Layer

24. Programming with the LINQ APIs

25. Introducing Windows Communication Foundation

26. Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation

Part 6. Desktop Applications with Windows Forms

27. Introducing Windows Forms

28. Rendering Graphical Data with GDI+

29. Programming with Windows Forms Controls

Part 7. Desktop Applications with WPF

30. Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML

31. Programming with WPF Controls

32. WPF 2D Graphical Rendering, Resources, and Themes

Part 8. Building Web Applications with ASP.NET

33. Building ASP.NET Web Pages

34. ASP.NET Web Controls, Themes, and Master Pages

35. ASP.NET State Management Techniques

Keywords: Computer Science, Programming Techniques