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Organized as self-teaching guides, Demystified titles come complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and even final exams. Simple enough for beginners but challenging enough for advanced students, they are the most lively and entertaining brush-ups, introductory reading, or classroom supplements available anywhere.





Beginning programmers looking to learn Microsoft's flagship rapid application development language for Windows and

the Web will find what they need to know in Visual Basic 2005 Demystified.





Using a friendly, non-intimidating writing style, this book explains the language and its libraries and applications. Readers will even learn to create a Visual Basic program without writing code.
Key Features:

Organized like a fun and painless self-teaching guide
Friendly, clear, non-intimidating writing style makes the content accessible
Quizzes at the end of each chapter and a final exam at the end of the book
Cheap--a lot of knowledge for twenty bucks
About the Author:

Jeff Kent (Los Angeles, CA) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Los Angeles Valley College in Valley Glen, California. He teaches a number of programming languages, including Visual Basic, C++, C#, Java, and Assembler. He also manages a network for a Los Angeles law firm. He has written several books on computer programming, recently Visual Basic.NET: A Beginner's Guide and C++ Demystified (McGraw-Hill/Osborne) and, concurrently with this book, Visual C# 2005 Demystified (McGraw-Hill). He graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and then went on to obtain a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola (Los Angeles) School of Law and to practice law.
Table of Content:


Part One: Introduction to Visual Basic 2005


Chapter 1: Getting Started with Your First Windows Program


Chapter 2: Writing Your First Code


Chapter 3: Controls


Part Two: Programming Building Blocks: Variables, Data Types, and Operators


Chapter 4: Storing Information -- Data Types and Variables


Chapter 5: Letting the Program Do the Math -- Arithmetic Operators


Chapter 6: Making Comparisons -- Comparison and Logical Operators


Part Three: Controlling the Flow of the Program


Chapter 7: Making Choices -- If and Select Case Control Structures


Chapter 8: Repeating Yourself -- Loops and Arrays


Chapter 9: Organizing Your Code with Procedures


Part Four: The User Interface


Chapter 10: Helper Forms


Chapter 11: Menus


Chapter 12: Toolbars


Part Five: Accessing Data


Chapter 13: Accessing Text Files


Chapter 14: Databases


Chapter 15: Web Applications


FINAL EXAM


ANSWERS TO QUIZZES AND FINAL EXAM


INDEX


Chapter 11: Menus and Toolbars


Chapter 12: Structured Exception Handling and Debugging