Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Final Release Date: June 2002
Pages: 576
The .NET platform gives Visual Basic developers access to an entirely new and comprehensive class library that promises to further simplify and speed VB application development. In VB.NET Core Classes in a Nutshell, VB Programmers will find a concise and thorough reference to the types found in the core namespaces of the .NET Framework Class Library.The heart of this book is a classic Nutshell Quick Reference to all the types found in 22 core .NET namespaces. The entry for each type describes its significance, explains how the type is used in .NET applications and lists its members and their signatures in readable VB.NET syntax.The core namespaces documented in this book include types in the following areas:
- Essential system and programming services found in the System namespace
- Text handling and regular expression pattern searches
- Diagnostics, debugging, and performance monitoring
- Generalized and specialized collection objects
- Reflection
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Input/output and serialization
- Networking
- Threading and timers
- COM interop and globalization
An essential companion to VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, this book completes a two-volume reference that VB.NET programmers will turn to repeatedly in both its print and online versions.Thanks to a special partnership between O'Reilly and Microsoft, now you can integrate the content from this "In a Nutshell" title with the Dynamic Help inside Visual Studio .NET. Once you install the plug-in using the enclosed CD-ROM, you'll have full access to its 22 namespace overviews and 700-plus type entries. Requires Visual Studio .NET or Visual Basic .NET.
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Introduction -
Chapter 1 Introduction - Before the .NET FCL
- The .NET Framework Class Library
- Working with the .NET FCL
- The Types of a .NET Namespace
- Approaching the .NET FCL
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.NET Core Classes Quick Reference -
Chapter 2 Reference - Finding a Quick-Reference Entry
- Reading a Quick-Reference Entry
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Chapter 3 Microsoft.Win32 -
Chapter 4 System -
Chapter 5 System.Collections -
Chapter 6 System.Collections.Specialized -
Chapter 7 System.Diagnostics -
Chapter 8 System.Globalization -
Chapter 9 System.IO -
Chapter 10 System.IO.IsolatedStorage -
Chapter 11 System.Net -
Chapter 12 System.Net.Sockets -
Chapter 13 System.Reflection -
Chapter 14 System.Reflection.Emit -
Chapter 15 System.Runtime.InteropServices -
Chapter 16 System.Runtime.Serialization -
Chapter 17 System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters -
Chapter 18 System.Text -
Chapter 19 System.Text.RegularExpressions -
Chapter 20 System.Threading -
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Chapter 22 System.Xml -
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Chapter 24 System.Xml.Xsl -
Appendixes -
Appendix Regular Expressions -
Appendix Format Specifiers - Picture Format Specifiers
- DateTime Format Specifiers
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- Title:
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Budi Kurniawan Budi Kurniawan is an IT consultant specializing in Internet and object-oriented programming, and has taught both Microsoft and Java technologies. Budi is among the first to develop commercial .NET applications and components and is currently writing the ".NET Real-World Projects" book to be published by APress this year, which includes the world's first .NET Pacman game. He is also the author of the best-selling "Java for the Web with Servlets, JSP, and EJB" (New Riders) and the developer of the most popular Java Upload Bean from BrainySoftware.com. View Budi Kurniawan's full profile page. |
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