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Programming in Visual Basic 2008, 7/e

Julia Case Bradley, Mt. San Antonio College
Anita C. Millspaugh, Mt. San Antonio College

ISBN: 0073517208
Copyright year: 2009

Revision Changes



Changes in This Edition

This revision of the text is based on the Professional Edition of Visual Basic 2008. The 2008 version of VB includes Language Integrated Queries (LINQ) for a more consistent means of querying a variety of data sources. XML literals make it easier to read and write XML files. The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) brings new dimensions to interface design.

The Editor now has a much richer IntelliSense that makes it unnecessary to use the Me keyword in most instances.

This version now contains a PrintForm control that is very convenient for the classroom environment. The PrintForm is covered in Chapter 1 for output to either the printer or a Print Preview. Standard printing is still covered in Chapter 7.

LINQ is covered in Chapter 10 (“Database Applications”) and again in the XML section of Chapter 14.

Chapter 11 (“Data Files”) includes a method for writing small amounts of data using the My object.

Drag-and-drop for images is now covered in the graphics chapter (Chapter 13). Students learn the development techniques for this familiar operation.

Chapter 14 includes XML data files and an introduction to programming with WPF.

The narrative, step-by-step exercises, screen captures, and appendices have all been updated to VB 2008. The screen captures are all based on Windows Vista.

Changes to coding conventions include the use Pascal casing for variable identifiers.

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