❞ كتاب Learn Microsoft Visual Basic®2012 ❝ ⏤ Michael Halvorson

كتاب الدورة الشاملة بالصور و الاكواد و الامثلة بالتفصيل فى الفيجوال بيسك دوت نت 2012
Learn Microsoft Visual Basic®2012
Michael Halvorson

Contents at a Glance

Introduction xiii
Chapter 1 Getting to Know Visual Basic 2012 1
Chapter 2 Creating Your First Windows 8 Application 35
Chapter 3 Using Controls 65
Chapter 4 Designing Windows 8 Applications with Blend
for Visual Studio 97
Chapter 5 Working with XAML 125
Chapter 6 Visual Basic Language Elements 147
Chapter 7 Controlling Application Design, Layout, and
Program Flow 175
Chapter 8 Using the .NET Framework 207
Chapter 9 Debugging Applications 233
Chapter 10 Managing Data with Arrays and LINQ 251
Chapter 11 Design Focus: Five Great Features for a
Windows 8 Application 279
Chapter 12 Future Development Opportunities and the
Windows Store 313
Index

Contents
n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Chapter 1 Getting to Know Visual Basic 2012 1
Development Opportunities for Visual Basic Programmers. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
New Development Platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Obtaining, Installing, and Starting Visual Studio Express 2012
for Windows 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Downloading the Product. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Installing Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Starting Visual Studio Express 2012. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Visual Studio Development Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The Visual Studio Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Designer Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Running a Visual Basic Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The Properties Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Moving and Resizing the Programming Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Moving and Resizing Tool Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Docking Tool Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Hiding Tool Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Switching among Open Files and Tools Using the IDE Navigator. . . . . . . 28
Opening a Web Browser Within Visual Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Customizing IDE Settings to Match This Book’s Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Checking Project and Compiler Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Exiting Visual Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
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viii Contents
Chapter 2 Creating Your First Windows 8 Application 35
Web List: Your First Visual Basic Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Creating the User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Setting the Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Writing the Visual Basic Code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
A Look at the Visual Basic Code-Behind File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Running Visual Basic Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Sample Projects on Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Building an Executable File and Deploying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Chapter 3 Using Controls 65
Using the Ellipse and TextBlock Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Using the CheckBox and RadioButton Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Using the MediaElement Control to Add Music and Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Thinking about Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Chapter 4 Designing Windows 8 Applications with Blend
for Visual Studio 97
Blend for Visual Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Why Blend Is Useful for Visual Studio Developers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Starting Blend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Design Tools in the Blend IDE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Using XAML Controls in Blend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Creating a Storyboard to Add Basic Animation Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Writing Event Handlers in Visual Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Using the OnNavigatedTo Event. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Contents ix
Chapter 5 Working with XAML 125
Understanding XAML Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
What Is XAML?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
XAML Is Related to XML and HTML. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
XAML Elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Examining XAML Project Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Creating XAML Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
Chapter 6 Visual Basic Language Elements 147
Understanding Visual Basic Program Statements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Using Variables to Store Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Setting Aside Space for Variables: The Dim Statement. . . . . . . . . . 149
Using Variables in an Event Handler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Using a Variable to Store and Process Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Working with Data Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Constants: Variables That Don’t Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Working with Visual Basic Operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Basic Math: The +, –, *, and / Operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168
Advanced Operators: , Mod, ^, and &. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Establishing Order of Precedence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Using Parentheses in a Formula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
Chapter 7 Controlling Application Design, Layout, and
Program Flow 175
Creating a Tile-Based Layout for Windows Store Apps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Designing Pages for User Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Evaluating Specific Conditions Using If...Then...Else Statements. . . . . . . . 187
Using the Day of the Week in an If...Then... Statement.
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