Outline

Visual Basic 2005 Essentials: Level 1

1.0 Introduction to .NET
1.1 What is .NET?
1.2 Managed Code and the CLR
1.3 How .NET Compiles and Executes Programs

2.0 Introduction to the Visual Basic Language
2.1 A Brief History of Visual Basic
2.2 Visual Basic 2005’s Role in .NET
2.3 Language Comparisons (C#, J#)

3.0 Your First VB 2005 Application
3.1 The Structure of a VB 2005 Application
3.2 Building a VB 2005 Console Application
3.3 Documenting Your Code with Comments

Visual Basic 2005 Essentials: Level 2

1.0 The Visual Studio 2005 IDE
1.1 Managing Files, Projects, and Solutions
1.2 The Windows of the IDE

2.0 Writing an Application
2.1 Working with Code

3.0 Debugging An Application
3.1 Breakpoints, Watches, and Edit and Continue

Visual Basic 2005 Essentials: Level 3

1.0 Creating a Windows Forms Application
1.1 Building Forms
1.2 Handling Control Events

2.0 A Survey of Various Controls
2.1 The Button, Text Box, and Label Controls
2.2 The Listbox, Combo Box, and Timer Controls

3.0 Working with Forms
3.1 Setting Properties and Dealing with Multiple Forms
3.2 Tabs and Anchoring

Visual Basic 2005 Essentials: Level 4

1.0 Basic Language Elements
1.1 Intrinsic Data Types
1.2 Variables, Constants, and Enumerations
1.3 String Concatenation
1.4 Mathematical Operators
1.5 Logical Operators and Short Circuiting
1.6 Access Modifiers

2.0 Program Flow Control

2.1 The While and Do Loops

2.2 The For Next Loop

2.3 Exiting and Continuing Loops

2.4 If Statements

3.0 Creating Routines

3.2 Passing Parameters

Visual Basic 2005 Essentials: Level 5

1.0 Structured Error Handling
1.1 Try… Catch… Finally

3.0 Collections
3.1 Collections vs. Arrays
3.2 Working with Collections

4.0 XML Comments
4.1 Using XML Comments

Visual Basic 2005 Essentials: Level 6

1.0 Introduction to Classes and Objects
1.1 Classes and Objects
1.2 The Structure of a Class
1.3 Fields and Properties
1.4 Methods
1.5 Events
1.6 Constructors and Destructors
1.7 Namespaces

2.0 Class Keywords
2.1 The My and Me Keywords
2.2 Shared Elements
2.3 Partial Classes
2.4 Access Modifiers

3.0 Overloading
3.1 Overloaded Methods
3.2 Overloaded Constructors

4.0 Inheritance
4.1 Base Classes
4.2 Derived Classes

Visual Basic 2005 Essentials: Level 7

1.0 Working with the Data Wizards
1.1 Using the Graphical Data Tools
1.2 Building Applications with the Graphical Data Tools

2.0 The Data Classes
2.1 Connections
2.2 Commands
2.3 DataReaders
2.4 Using DataReaders in Applications
2.5 DataSets and DataAdapters
2.6 Using DataSets in Applications