Preface
Before You Begin

Chapters

1. Introduction to Computers, the Internet and Visual Basic
2. Introduction to the Visual Basic 2005 Express IDE
3. Introduction to Visual Basic Programming
4. Introduction to Early Classes and Objects
5. Control Statements Part 1
6. Control Statements Part 2
7. Methods: A Deeper Look
8. Arrays
9. Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look
10. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance
11. Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism
12. Exception Handling
13. Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 1
14. Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 2
15. Multithreading
16. Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions
17. Graphics and Multimedia
18. Files and Streams
19. XML
20. Database, SQL and ADO.NET
21. ASP.NET, Web Forms and Web Controls
22. Web Services
23. Networking: Stream-Based Sockets and Datagrams
24. Data Structures
25. Generics
26. Collections

Appendices

1. Operator Precedence Chart
2. Number Systems
3. Visual Studio 2005 Debugger
4. ASCII Character Set
5. Unicode®
6. Introduction to XHTML: Part1
7. Introduction to XHTML: Part 2
8. HTML/XHTML Special Characters
9. HTML/XHTML Colors
10. ATM Case Study Code
11. UML Diagrams
12. Primitive Types

Index