In the Fifth Edition, Advanced Visual Basic 2010 helps those who are familiar with the fundamentals of Visual Basic 2010 programming harness its power for more advanced uses. Coverage of sophisticated tools and techniques used in the industry today include various database, ASP.NET, LINQ, WPF and Web Services topics. After studying the book and completing the programming exercises, students should be able to create small- to medium-sized Windows and Web applications that use databases. They will also gain essential concepts in object-oriented programming, event-driven programming, and test-driven development. Each subject is presented in an understandable style that makes this book a leader in the field.

Table of Contents:
1. Classes 1.1 Classes and Objects 1.2 Manual Software Testing Tutorial 1-1: Manually testing integer input 1.3 Creating Your Own Classes Tutorial 1-2: Creating a Student Class Tutorial 1-3: Adding a parameterized constructor to the Student class 1.4 Enumerated Types Tutorial 1-4: Enumerated Account type 1.5 Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Bank Teller Application Tutorial 1-5 Building the Bank Teller application 2. Input Validation and User Interfaces 2.1 Input Validation Tutorial 2-1: Using the ErrorProvider control 2.2 Exception Handling 2.3 ListBox, ComboBox, and CheckedListBox 2.4 Dates and Times 2.5 ToolStrip Control Tutorial 2-2: Building the Coffee Shop Application 2.6 WebBrowser, SplitContainer, and TabControl Tutorial 2-3: Completing a WebBrowser application 2.7 Focus on Problem Solving: Kayak Tour Scheduling Wizard Tutorial 2-4: Completing the Kayak Tour Wizard application 3. Collections 3.1 ArrayLists Tutorial 3-1: ArrayList of test scores 3.2 ArrayLists of Custom Objects Tutorial 3-2: Building an ArrayList of Student objects 3.3 List and Dictionary Classes Tutorial 3-3: Creating a text concordance 3.4 LINQ (Language Integrated Query) Tutorial 3-4: Performing LINQ queries on a List 4. Using SQL Server Databases 4.1 Database Basics 4.2 SQL SELECT Statement 4.3 Using the DataGridView Tutorial 4-1: Showing a database table in a DataGridView control 4.4 Selecting DataSet Rows Tutorial 4-2: Filtering rows in the SalesStaff table 4.5 Data-Bound Controls Tutorial 3-3: Displaying the Members table in a ListBox Tutorial 3-4: Inserting rows in the Karate Payments table Tutorial 3-5: Adding a total to the Insert_Karate_Payments application 4.6 Focus on Problem Solving: Karate School Manager Application Tutorial 3-6: Creating the Karate School Manager startup form Tutorial 3-7: Karate School Manager: Listing all members Tutorial 3-8: Karate School Manager: Adding new members Tutorial 3-9: Karate School Manager: Finding members by name Tutorial 3-10: Karate School Manager: Listing all payments Tutorial 3-11: Karate School Manager: Showing payments by one member 5. ADO.NET Database Objects 5.1 Creating databases Tutorial 5-1: Creating a SQL Server Express Database Tutorial 5-2: Adding the Appointments table to the RepairServices database Tutorial 5-3: Adding the RepairTypes table to the RepairServices database Tutorial 5-4: Creating relations between the RepairTypes, Appointments, and Customers tables Tutorial 5-5: Changing the database connection from the SQL Express server to a database file 5.2 DataTables 5.3 Updating Databases Using SQL 5.4 Home Repair Services Application Tutorial 5-6: Adding the Appointments class to the middle tier Tutorial 5-7: Creating the main startup form Tutorial 5-8: Adding classes to the middle tier Tutorial 5-9: Adding controls to the New Appointment form Tutorial 5-10: Searching for appointments Tutorial 5-11: Modifying existing appointments Tutorial 5-12: Selecting appointments to modify Tutorial 5-13: Deleting an appointment Tutorial 5-14: Displaying a joined appointment list 6. Advanced Classes 6.1 Structures 6.2 Components Tutorial 6-1: Creating a Component and referencing it from another Application Tutorial 6-2: Adding an Advisor class to the RegistrationLib component Tutorial 6-3: Using the Advisor and Student classes 6.3 Unit Testing Tutorial 6-4: Creating a Unit Test Project Tutorial 6-5: Creating more unit tests for the IntArray class Tutorial 6-6: Testing the Advisor.MaxCredits method 6.4 Events Tutorial 6-7: The WeatherStation Events application 6.5 Inheritance Tutorial 6-8: Student Inheritance application 7. LINQ to SQL 7.1 Using LINQ to Select Data Tutorial 7-1: Displaying the Karate Members table Tutorial 7-2: Displaying the Karate class schedule 7.2 Updating Tables Tutorial 7-3: Using a BindingSource to update the Members table Tutorial 7-4: Using LINQ queries to add schedule entries 8. Creating Web Applications 8.1 Programming for the Web 8.2 Creating ASP.NET Applications Tutorial 8-1: Creating the Click application 8.3 ASP.NET Controls Tutorial 8-2: Student Picnic application Tutorial 8-3: Tracking server events 8.4 List-Type Controls Tutorial 8-4: Signing up for a Kayak Tour 8.5 Designing Web Forms Tutorial 8-5: College Advising Wizard 8.6 State Management 9. Programming Web Forms 9.1 Working in Source (XHTML) Mode 9.2 Cascading Style Sheets 9.3 Custom Error Handling 9.4 Uploading Files and Sending Email 9.5 Data Validation Controls 9.6 Working with Multiple Web Forms 9.7 Focus on Problem Solving: Vacation Rentals Application 9.8 Browser Cookies 10. Web Applications with Databases 10.1 Master-Detail Pages 10.2 Using Databases 10.3 Data Binding and ListControls 10.4 GridView Control Buttons 10.5 Using JavaScript 10.6 Using Ajax 11. Web Services and Windows Presentation Foundation 11.1 Introducing XML Web Services 11.2 NorthWind Web Service Example 11.3 Creating and Accessing Remote Services 12. Reports, MDI, Interfaces, and Polymorphism 12.1 Using Reports in Applications 12.2 Report Expert 12.3 Report Designer 12.4 Xtreme Bike Sales Example Chapter Summary Appendix A. Answers to Checkpoints Appendix B. Reference B.1 TimeSpan and Date/Time Formatting B.2 ListView Control B.3 SQL Server Data Types B.4 DataList Control (ASP.NET) B.5 Multiple Document Interface (MDI) Applications B.6 User Interface Design Guidelines B.7 Writing to the Application Log File B.8 Interfaces B.9 Abstract Classes and Polymorphism B.10 Windows Presentation Foundation