Learning Visual Basic .NET – A Guide To VB.NET Programming

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Important – Download These First – Working Files

Lecture 2: 0101 Introduction And Course Overview

Lecture 3: 0103 Installing Visual Studio

Lecture 4: 0104 How To Access Your Working Files

Chapter 2: Using The IDE

Lecture 1: 0201 Creating And Running A New Project

Lecture 2: 0202 Copying And Compressing Projects

Lecture 3: 0203 IDE Tour

Chapter 3: Building User Interfaces

Lecture 1: 0301 Creating Controls

Lecture 2: 0302 Setting Properties At Design Time

Lecture 3: 0303 Common Properties

Lecture 4: 0304 Naming Controls

Lecture 5: 0305 Anchoring Controls

Chapter 4: Common Controls

Lecture 1: 0401 Label And Textbox

Lecture 2: 0402 Button

Lecture 3: 0403 Check Box And Radio Button

Lecture 4: 0404 Combo Box, Listbox, And Checked Listbox

Lecture 5: 0405 Menus

Chapter 5: Container Controls

Lecture 1: 0501 Group Box, Panel, And Flow Layout Panel

Lecture 2: 0502 Tab Control And Split Container

Lecture 3: 0503 Table Layout Panel

Chapter 6: Events Handling

Lecture 1: 0601 Button and Menu Events

Lecture 2: 0602 Paint Events

Lecture 3: 0603 Scroll Bars

Chapter 7: Dialogs

Lecture 1: 0701 Message Box

Lecture 2: 0702 Open File Dialog And Save File Dialog

Lecture 3: 0703 Color Dialog And Font Dialog

Lecture 4: 0704 Folder Browser Dialog

Chapter 8: Working With Forms

Lecture 1: 0801 Creating And Displaying New Forms

Lecture 2: 0802 Re-Using Forms

Lecture 3: 0803 Building Custom Dialogs

Chapter 9: Using Variables

Lecture 1: 0901 Declaring Variables And Performing Calculations

Lecture 2: 0902 Using Constants

Lecture 3: 0903 Understanding Scope

Lecture 4: 0904 Arithmetic Operators

Lecture 5: 0905 Enumerated Types

Chapter 10: Debugging

Lecture 1: 1001 Stepping Through Code

Lecture 2: 1002 Using Watch Windows

Lecture 3: 1003 Using Advanced Breakpoints

Lecture 4: 1004 Handling Exceptions

Lecture 5: 1005 Detecting Errors

Chapter 11: Working With Data Types

Lecture 1: 1101 Strings

Lecture 2: 1102 String Methods

Lecture 3: 1103 Dates, Times, And Timespans

Lecture 4: 1104 Creating Arrays

Lecture 5: 1105 Creating Collections

Lecture 6: 1106 Initializing Arrays And Collections

Chapter 12: Branching Statements

Lecture 1: 1201 If Statements

Lecture 2: 1202 Select Case Statements

Chapter 13: Looping Statements

Lecture 1: 1301 For Loops

Lecture 2: 1302 For Each Loops

Lecture 3: 1303 While Loops

Lecture 4: 1304 Do Loops

Chapter 14: Making Methods

Lecture 1: 1401 Subroutines, Functions, And Methods

Lecture 2: 1402 ByVal And ByRef

Lecture 3: 1403 Passing Arrays

Lecture 4: 1404 Optional Parameters

Lecture 5: 1405 Parameter Arrays

Chapter 15: Classes

Lecture 1: 1501 Introduction To Classes

Lecture 2: 1502 Creating Properties

Lecture 3: 1503 Creating Events

Lecture 4: 1504 Event Parameters

Lecture 5: 1505 Inheritance And Polymorphism

Lecture 6: 1506 Shadowing And Overriding

Lecture 7: 1507 Overriding ToString

Lecture 8: 1508 Overloading Methods

Lecture 9: 1509 Constructors

Lecture 10: 1510 Shared Members

Lecture 11: 1511 Overloading Operators

Lecture 12: 1512 Building Generic Classes

Lecture 13: 1513 Building Generic Methods

Lecture 14: 1514 Extension Methods

Lecture 15: 1515 Implementing Interfaces

Lecture 16: 1516 Creating Interfaces

Chapter 16: LINQ To Objects

Lecture 1: 1601 Understanding LINQ

Lecture 2: 1602 Lambda Expressions And Order By

Lecture 3: 1603 Group By

Chapter 17: Working With Files And Directories

Lecture 1: 1701 Files – The Easy Way

Lecture 2: 1702 File Dates And Times

Lecture 3: 1703 Working With Directories

Lecture 4: 1704 The My Namespace

Chapter 18: Printing

Lecture 1: 1801 Printing

Lecture 2: 1802 Printing A Report