Visual Basic 2010s Programmer's Reference is a language tutorial and a reference guide to the upcoming 2010 release of Visual Basic. The tutorial provides basic material suitable for beginners but also includes in-depth content for more advanced developers.
The second part of the book is a reference that quickly allows programmers to locate information for specific language features. The entries in these appendices allow the reader to quickly review the details of important programming, objects, properties, methods, and events.
Visual Basic 2010 Programmer's Reference is fully revised to cover the latest features of the 2010 release.The author have extensively revised and retest all code to ensure compliance with the Orcas release.

About the Author

Rod Stephens is a VB programming guru, with more than 16 programming books to his credit, including Wrox Visual Basic Programmer's Reference, 2005 and 2008 editions. He also writes frequently for such magazines as Visual Basic Developer, Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, and Dr. Dobb's Journal. Rod's VB Helper Website (vb-helper.com) receives several million hits per month and provides thousands of pages of tips, tricks, and code examples for VB programmers.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION. PART I: IDEI. • CHAPTER 1 Introduction to the IDE. • CHAPTER 2 Menus, Toolbars, and Windows. • CHAPTER 3 Customization. • CHAPTER 4 Windows Forms Designer. • CHAPTER 5 WPF Designer. • CHAPTER 6 Visual Basic Code Editor. • CHAPTER 7 Debugging. PART II: GETTING STARTED. • CHAPTER 8 Selecting Windows Forms Controls. • CHAPTER 9 Using Windows Forms Controls. • CHAPTER 10 Windows Forms. • CHAPTER 11 Selecting WPF Controls. • CHAPTER 12 Using WPF Controls. • CHAPTER 13 WPF Windows. • CHAPTER 14 Program and Module Structure. • CHAPTER 15 Data Types, Variables, and Constants. • CHAPTER 16 Operators. • CHAPTER 17 Subroutines and Functions. • CHAPTER 18 Program Control Statements. • CHAPTER 19 Error Handling. • CHAPTER 20 Database Controls and Objects. • CHAPTER 21 LINQ. • CHAPTER 22 Custom Controls. • .CHAPTER 23 Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard. • CHAPTER 24 UAC Security. PART III OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING. • CHAPTER 25 OOP Concepts. • CHAPTER 26 Classes and Structures. • CHAPTER 27 Namespaces. • CHAPTER 28 Collection Classes. • CHAPTER 29 Generics. PART IV: GRAPHICS. • CHAPTER 30 Drawing Basics. • CHAPTER 31 Brushes, Pens, and Paths. • CHAPTER 32 Text. • CHAPTER 33 Image Processing. • CHAPTER 34 Printing. PART V: INTERACTING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT. • CHAPTER 35 Confi guration and Resources. • CHAPTER 36 Streams. • CHAPTER 37 File-System Objects. • CHAPTER 38 Windows Communication Foundation. • CHAPTER 39 Useful Namespaces. PART VI: APPENDIXES. • APPENDIX A Useful Control Properties, Methods, and Events. • APPENDIX B Variable Declarations and Data Types. • APPENDIX C Operators. • APPENDIX D Subroutine and Function Declarations. • APPENDIX E Control Statements. • APPENDIX F Error Handling. • APPENDIX G Windows Forms Controls and Components. • .APPENDIX H WPF Controls. • APPENDIX I Visual Basic Power Packs. • APPENDIX J Form Objects. • APPENDIX K Classes and Structures. • APPENDIX L LINQ. • APPENDIX M Generics. • APPENDIX N Graphics. • APPENDIX O Useful Exception Classes. • APPENDIX P Date and Time Format Specifiers. • APPENDIX Q Other Format Specifiers. • APPENDIX R The Application Class. • APPENDIX S The My Namespace. • APPENDIX T Streams. • APPENDIX U File-System Classes. • APPENDIX V Index of Examples. INDEX.