Visual Basic Essential Training

Contents

• Introduction Introduction

  • Write applications with Visual Basic

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    Choose an editor or IDE

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    Install Visual Studio and choose workloads

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    How to access the sample code on GitHub

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• 1. Quick Tour 1. Quick Tour

  • Visual Basic and you

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    .NET and Visual Basic

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    What can you build with Visual Basic

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• 2. Build Your First Application 2. Build Your First Application

  • Chapter roadmap

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    Set up the tools

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    Create a console app

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    What files are in the new project

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    Build and compile the application

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    Run the application

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    Work with the console class

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    The forgiving nature of VB code

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• 3. Create Projects in Visual Studio 3. Create Projects in Visual Studio

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    Optimize the Visual Studio settings

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    Create a console project in Visual Studio

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    Projects and solutions

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    Examine the template structure and code

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    How the editor enhances our code

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  • Use the auto suggestions when editing

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    Compile the project code

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    Run the example code from Visual Studio

    2m 28s
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    Run the example code with a debugger

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• 4. Work with Multiple Projects 4. Work with Multiple Projects

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    What applications can you create?

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    Add additional projects to the solution

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  • Understand code containers: Modules and classes

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    Choose a startup project

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    Review the desktop template code

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  • Review the web application template code

    1m 46s
• 5. Program Flow 5. Program Flow

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    Understand default code flow for an application

    6m 49s
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    Event driven code

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    Create a program loop to run an application indefinitely

    4m 52s
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    Listen for KeyChar to terminate the loop

    3m 9s
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    The To-Do application

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  • Work with a Windows UI project

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    Add click event handler code

    3m 29s
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    Add TextChanged event handler code

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• 6. Variables and Constants 6. Variables and Constants

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    Work with variables and constants

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    Use the code explorer project

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    Declare a variable

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    Variables and .NET types

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    Naming your variables

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    Understand the variable scope: What code can access the variable

    4m 19s
  • How data conversion works

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    Convert numeric values

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    Create custom constants

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    Work with built-in constants

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    Work with enum values

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    Create a custom enum

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• 7. Work with Strings 7. Work with Strings

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    Understanding strings

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    Create string variables

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    Concatenation and interpolation

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    Search string contents

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    Modify string contents

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    String creation with StringBuilder

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    Compare and equals

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    Convert and format numbers to strings

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    Implicit covert strings to numbers

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    Use Parse and TryParse conversions

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• 8. Date and Time 8. Date and Time

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    The date types

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    Define date and time variables

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    Initialize date and time values

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    Output formatted date values

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    Date manipulation

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    Challenge: Strings, dates, and parsing

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    Solution: Strings, dates, and parsing

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• 9. Refactor Your Code Into Functions and Subs 9. Refactor Your Code Into Functions and Subs

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    Understand procedures and methods

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    Add procedures to a module

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    Call procedures from the application

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    Add procedures to a class

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    Add code to functions

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    Use parameters with procedures

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• 10. Debugging Your Code 10. Debugging Your Code

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    Some essential debug tools

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    Add breakpoints to code

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    Step through the code while debugging

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    Use the watch windows to see runtime data

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• 11. Operators 11. Operators

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    Explore the arithmetic operators

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    Explore the comparison and logical operators

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• 12. Control Flow: Branch Statements 12. Control Flow: Branch Statements

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    The Code Explorer updated UI

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    If and else statements

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    Use the AndAlso and OrElse logical operators

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    Select case: A better way to branch

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    Challenge: Logic statements and string compare

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    Solution: Logic statements and string compare

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• 13. Control Flow: Loop Statements 13. Control Flow: Loop Statements

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    Use For loops to run code a specific number of times

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    Use Do loops to run code until a condition is fulfilled

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    Exit or continue loops

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    Challenge: Pentagonal rings

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    Solution: Pentagonal rings

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• 14. Object-Oriented VB 14. Object-Oriented VB

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    Classes and OOP

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    Define a property

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    Create a constructor

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    Object inheritance

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    Interface inheritance

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• 15. Work with Lists and Arrays 15. Work with Lists and Arrays

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    Explore the collection classes

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    Use a ListBox instead of a text control

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    Create new collections

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    Initialize a collection

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    Add items to a list

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    Get items from the list

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    Remove items from a list

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    Iterate over a list

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    Bind a list to a user control

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    Delegates and lambda expressions

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    Customize a method with predicate functions

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    Quick look at other collection classes

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• 16. Query Lists with LINQ 16. Query Lists with LINQ

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    LINQ: Enumerable and extension methods

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    Work with extension methods

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    Use LINQ with lists

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    Use lambda expressions with LINQ

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• 17. Error Handling 17. Error Handling

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    What happens when the unexpected happens?

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    The default response to unhandled exceptions

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    The Windows event log

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    Use try catch for exception handling

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• Conclusion Conclusion

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    Next steps

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