Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET)

Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is a multi-paradigm, high level programming language, implemented on the .NET Framework. Microsoft launched VB.NET in 2002 as the successor to its original Visual Basic language.

Although the ".NET" portion was dropped in 2005, this article uses "Visual Basic .NET" to refer to all Visual Basic languages releases since 2002, in order to distinguish between them and the classic Visual Basic. Along with Visual C#, it is one of the two main languages targeting the .NET framework.

Content:

• Console Applications
• Introduction to VB.net, Programming Constructs, Functions and Procedures, Arrays, Enumeration and Structures, OOPs with vb.net, Overloading, Inheritance and Overriding, Interfaces, Namespaces and Collections, Exception Handling, Multithreading, Garbage Collection Concepts, Working with Databases
• Windows Applications
• INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL STUDIO.NET
• Introduction, Features of Visual Studio.NET, Types of Projects, WinForms, WebForms
• WORKING WITH WINDOWS APPLICATIONS
• User Interface - Character based interface; Graphical User Interface, Winforms IDE - Objects, Classes, Properties and Methods; Class Libraries; Events and Event Handlers, Creating winforms application, Form Class Hierarchy, Properties, Methods and Events of a Form, Controls, Event Handling in Winforms - Design time event handler; Run time event handler
• WINFORMS CONTROLS
• Introduction to types of controls, Establishing link between forms, Working with different Windows Controls, Setting Timers for various Events
• USER INTERFACE ENHANCEMENTS
• Print support controls – PrintDocument; PrintPreviewControl, Creating an application that previews and prints a document, Dialog Boxes – Features; Types of dialog boxes, Application using Common Dialog boxes, Visual Effect in winforms - Transparent Forms; Control Anchoring and Docking; Visual Inheritance
• ERROR HANDLING IN WINFORMS
• Data Validation - Form-level validations; Field-level validations, Exception - Types of errors; Exception classes; Properties of exceptions; Handling exceptions
• MDI APPLICATIONS
• SDI - Drawbacks of SDI, MDI- Designing MDI Applications; Characteristics of MDI components; Activating and Deactivating Windows - Arranging child windows, Menus - Types of menus; Adding and Removing menu items at run time, Toolbar, Status Bars, Creating Tabbed Pages, Different Layouts of Controls, Placing Tooltips, Assigning Notify Icons to Projects, Mouse events, User defined Dialog boxes
• INTRODUCTION TO ADO.NET
• Data access components – ODBC; OLE DB; ADO, ADO.NET, ADO.NET architecture, Basic components of ADO.NET, Dataset – Datagrid; .NET Data Providers, Tree Views, List Views
• MORE ON ADO.NET
• ADO.net Data Providers - Fetching values from database; Using Data Readers; Modifying data; Populating DataSet using DataAdapter, .NET Data Provider Events, Executing queries from a Project, Relations, Data Binding - Types of Binding; Different Data Sources; DataGridView
• CREATING CUSTOM CONTROLS
• Component Object Model (COM), Object Linking and Embedding, ActiveX controls, Developing Custom controls - Adding properties; Associating events ; Inheriting existing winforms controls; Inheriting from user control class
• CRYSTAL REPORTS
• Introduction and features, Crystal Report Architecture, Accessing Data, Creating a Report using Crystal Report Wizard, Creating a Report using Blank Report, Using Group Expert, Making Calculations in the Report, Binding reports to viewers at runtime, Runtime customization of reports
• PACKAGING AND DEPLOYING APPLICATIONS
• Packaging and deploying, Modes of Packaging, Deploying Applications - Adding a deployment project to a solution; Setting properties for the deployment projects; Adding files to a project; File Installation Management, File Types Management - User Interface Management; Custom Action Management; Launch Condition Management; Modes of Distribution of an application