Visual Basic 2012 unleashed

Fully updated for Windows 8 support, .NET 4.5, and Windows Phone development, this is the most comprehensive, practical reference to modern programming with Visual Basic 2012. Written by Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, a long-time leader of the global VB community, this book illuminates the core to the VB language and demonstrates its effective use in many current programming scenarios. Del Sole covers both Visual Basic 2012 Professional Edition for professional developers and the Express Edition for hobbyists, novices, and students. Writing for VB programmers at all levels of experience, he walks through using VB 2012 for data access, Windows desktop. Windows Phone user interface development, networking, communication, and much more. For those moving form structured languages--including VB 6--Del Sole offers detailed guidance on building effective object-oriented code. He also demonstrates how to make the most of Microsoft's updated .NET 4.5 platform to write more robust and powerful software.--

Introducing the .NET Framework 4.5 -- Getting started with the Visual Studio 2012 IDE -- The anatomy of a Visual Basic Project -- Data types and expressions -- Debugging Visual Basic 2012 applications -- Handling errors and exceptions -- Class fundamentals -- Managing an object's lifetime -- Organizing types within namespaces -- Modules -- Structures and enumerations -- Inheritance -- Interfaces -- Generics and nullable types -- Delegates and events -- Working with collections and iterators -- Creating objects : visual tools and portable libraries -- Manipulating files and streams -- The My Namespace -- Advanced language features -- INtroducing ADO.NET and DataSets -- Introducing LINQ -- LINQ to objects -- LINQ to SQL -- LINQ to DataSets -- Introducing ADO.NET entity framework -- Manipulating XML documents with LINQ and XML literals -- Creating WPF applications -- WPF common controls -- Brushes, styles, templates, and animations in WPF -- Manipulating media and documents -- Introducing data-binding -- Localizing applications -- Building ASP.NET web applications -- Publishing ASP.NET web applications -- Building rich internet applications with Silverlight 5 -- Building and deployin…