The Ultimate VB .NET and ASP.NET Code Book 

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• 1. Table of Contents

• 2. BackCover

• 3. The Ultimate VB.NET and ASP.NET Code Book

• 4. Chapter 1: Moving from VB6

  Overview

• 5. What Is .NET?

  What Is .NET?

• 6. Exploring Visual Studio .NET

  Exploring Visual Studio .NET

• 7. Creating a Web Application

  Creating a Web Application

• 8. How Your Code Changes

  How Your Code Changes Understanding the Framework Integer Upgrades Strings Variant and Currency Array Alterations New Operators Declaring Properties User-Defined Types Change the Scope ByVal Is Default Set Has Disappeared Error Handling Changes The Class Keyword

• 9. Conclusion

  Conclusion

• 10. Chapter 2: Creating Great Windows Applications

  Overview

• 11. The Essentials

  The Essentials

• 12. Developer Secrets

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• 13. Protecting Your Code with Obfuscation

  Protecting Your Code with Obfuscation Best of All Worlds: Creating an Ultra-Thin Client The Easy Way to Download Full Application Updates

• 14. Chapter 3: Web Sites in Seconds

  Overview

• 15. The Essentials

  The Essentials

• 16. Developer Secrets

  Developer Secrets User Interface Code Techniques Optimization Errors and Other Tips

• 17. User Interface

  User Interface Five-Step Checklist for the Validation Controls Displaying Web Warning Messages: Technique 1 Displaying Web Warning Messages: Technique 2 Unveiled: How to Create a Default Enter Button Wonders of the Little-Known SmartNavigation Property The Secret Behind User Controls Why the Panel Control Is Super Useful Moving List Items Up and Down Easily Resizing in Web Applications Stopping Your User from Right-Clicking Creating Scrollable Micro Windows Why You Should Learn CSS

• 18. Code Techniques

  Code Techniques Three Steps to Changing Your Page Title in Code How to Automatically Fill Out Email Fields Sending Mail in ASP.NET The Trick to Creating User-Friendly URLs Adding Real-Time HTML to Your Page The Secret to Uploading Files with Ease Storing Uploaded Files in Your Database Working with Uploaded Images Creating Images Dynamically Code for Generating Thumbnails on the Fly Five Steps to ASP.NET Authentication Forms Authentication Without Web.config Authenticating Just Part of Your Site The Best Place to Store Your Settings Steal Fantastic Forum Code from Microsoft and Save Yourself Hours Integrating with PayPals Instant Payment Notification

• 19. Optimization, Errors, and Other Tips

  Optimization Errors and Other Tips Subfolders in Web Applications: Confused? Choosing a Directory Other Than c:inetpubwwwroot Create Super-Fast ASP.NET Applications with Caching Nine Steps to Successful Debugging Hiding Error Code from Your Clients Forget 404: Customizing Your Page Not Found

• 20. Server.Transfer vs. Response.Redirect

  Server.Transfer vs. Response.Redirect Using .IsClientConnected for Long Processes Preventing Client Caching with Meta Tags Uploading Files Larger Than 4MB What to Do When Session_End Doesnt Work Spying on Your Web Host: Checking Uptime in .NET Can It Cope? Stress Testing Your Web Apps The Two Methods of Moving Web Servers Where to Put Your Files with an ASP.NET Host Uh-oh: Installing IIS After Visual Studio .NET

• 21. Chapter 4: Working with Data

  Overview

• 22. The Essentials

  The Essentials

• 23. Developer Secrets

  Developer Secrets Generating GUIDs in a Flash Making Your Own Connection String Creator Finding the Last Identity Number Added Cheating with SQL Returning Multiple Tables into a DataSet Checking Whether SQL Server Is Available Seven Steps to a Quick Editable Windows Grid Nine Steps to a Quick Editable Web Grid How to Use HTML in a Web Grid Using Hyperlinks in Your Web Grid Dates Currency Percentages: Formatting Your Web Grid Data Looking Good: Color-Coding Your Web Grid Little-Known Technique for Confirming Web Deletes Selecting Multiple Web Form Grid Items Hotmail-Style Click Anywhere and Select with a Web Grid The Lowdown on Using Dropdown Boxes in a Web Grid Speedy Personalized Web Data Binding Quick and Easy Data Paging with Your Web Grid Sorting in Seconds with Your Web Grid Amazingly Simple Method for Exporting Your Web Grid to Excel Returning a DataSet from an Excel Spreadsheet Get Microsoft to Write Your Code: Amazing Undocumented SQL Server Tool

• 24. Chapter 5: The Lowdown on Web Services

  Overview

• 25. The Essentials

  The Essentials

• 26. Developer Secrets

  Developer Secrets Exposing Database Information the Quick and Easy Way Five Things You Need to Do Before Publicizing Your Web Service Improving Performance with Easy Caching Online Translations: Get Your Programs Speaking Spanish in Seconds Adding Google Search to Your Programs Querying the Amazon.com Web Service View the Real World in Your Application with TerraServer Asynchronous Access: Secrets of Calling a Web Service in the Background Web Services Proxies Connection ClosedOh My Change a Web Service URL Without Recompiling Where to Find the Best Web Services Around

• 27. Chapter 6: From Microwaves to Pocket PCs: Special Project Types

  Overview Plug into Windows: Creating Your Own Windows Service Installing Your Service Get the DOS Feel: Creating a Basic Console Application From Mobiles to Microwaves: Creating Applications with the MIT Creating Your Mobile Web Application Writing Mobile-Aware Code Testing Your Mobile Web Application Portable Computing: Creating Apps for Your PDA Building for the Compact Framework Deploying Your Applications Going On from Here

• 28. Chapter 7: More .NET Secrets

  Overview

• 29. Developer Secrets

  Developer Secrets Working with the Internet Manipulating Files and Folders Dates Numbers Strings Graphics and Fonts Using the Registry and Event Log Distributed Computing Visual Studio Tips

• 30. Working with the Internet

  Working with the Internet Creating Your Own Web Browser How to Snatch the HTML of a Web Page How to Snatch HTML with a Timeout Tricks of Parsing a Web Page for Links and Images Converting HTML to Text Easily Real Code for Posting Data to the Web Adding a Web Shortcut to the Favorites Retrieving Your IP AddressAnd Why You May Want To Is an Internet Connection Available?

• 31. Manipulating Files and Folders

  Manipulating Files and Folders Two Easy-to-Use Functions for Reading and Writing Files Files: Moving Deleting Attributes and More Checking Whether Two Files Are Identical The Trick to Temporary Files Doing Directories Watching a Directory for Changes How Big Is That Filein English? Retrieving Special Folder Paths Which Program Handles That File Extension? Retrieving a Drive Serial Number The .NET Replacement for App.Path INI Files Will Never Die: How to in .NET

• 32. Dates, Numbers, Strings

  Dates Numbers Strings Is That a Whole Number or Not? Checking for a Date the Intelligent .NET Way 1st 2nd 3rd: Using Ordinal Numbers in Your App Random Numbers That Work Finding the Number of Days in a Month Adding and Subtracting Days Months Years Calculating the Next Working Day Easy Check for a Leap Year Figuring Out Quarters Calculating the Years Between Two Dates Converting a String to Proper Case Storing Text Snippets on the Clipboard Generating Memorable Passwords Automatically Encryption in Just Twelve Lines of Code Implementing Powerful MD5 Encryption Converting a String into the Color Type Binding a Combo Box to Enumeration Values

• 33. Graphics and Fonts

  The Ultimate VB .NET and ASP.NET Code Book

• 34. Using the Registry and Event Log

  Using the Registry and Event Log How to Read and Write the Registry Putting Messages in the Event Log

• 35. Distributed Computing

  Distributed Computing The Cheats Guide to XML Reading an XML Document in Code Writing an XML Document in Code Using XML and DataSets The Three Words to SQL Server XML Success Quick XML Review Six Steps to Basic Transactions with COM Quick Guide to Using MSMQ Which to Choose: Web Services vs. Remoting

• 36. Visual Studio Tips

  Visual Studio Tips Writing a Developer TODO: List Storing Often-Used Code in the Toolbox Organizing Your Project with Folders Figuring out the Command Window Discovering Whether Youre Running in the IDE Saving Time by Recording Macros Using the VS .NET Command Prompt The Old School: Upgrading COM and the API

• 37. Chapter 8: Unveiled: The Hidden .NET Language

  Overview

• 38. How It Works

  How It Works

• 39. Your Regex Library

  Your Regex Library Exactly-One-Digit Checker Real Number Matcher Alphanumerical Matcher: No Spaces or Dots 24-Hour Clock Time Check Identifying Valid Dates File Path and Extension Check Checking for Repeated Words Getting Capitalized Words Matching Numbers from a String Who Are You?Name Checker Naughty-Word Filter Expression True Email Address Validation Validating a Web Site Address Internet URL Matcher: FTP HTTP HTTPS Checking for a Valid Domain IP Address Checker Extracting Links and Images from HTML Checking HTML Color Codes Credit Card Validation Credit Card Regular Expression Password Format Enforcing Expression Defining Your Own HTML: Custom Tags with Expressions ISBN Checker Is That a GUID? U.S. ZIP Code Checker U.S. Social Security Number Checker U.S. Phone Number Checker U.S. State Checker U.K. Postal Code Matcher U.K. National Insurance Number Check U.K. Telephone Number Validator Converting American and British Dates French German and Japanese Expressions The Simple Cure for Loose Expressions

• 40. Chapter 9: The Quick C Translation Guide

  Overview

• 41. Translating C to VB .NET

  Translating C to VB .NET Translation Listing 1. Comments: welcome to C 2. Remove the End-of-Line Semicolon; 3. Data Types: int bool float DateTime 4. Functions: public bool writeEventLog(string entry) 5. Methods: public void activateAlarm() 6. Variables: string strText; 7. String Contents: n and 8. Objects: myObject new myClass(); 9. Scope: public private internal static 10. Arguments: ref and out keywords 11. Arithmetic: x; 12. If-Then: if (x y) else 13. Comparison: and and and 14. Select Case: switch x 15. Loops: for (x1; x10; x1) 16. Errors: try catch finally 17. The Mystery of this 18. Events: obj.event new class.delegate(handler); 19. Classes: Properties 20. Classes: Constructors and Finalizers 21. Class Interfaces: myInterface myObject2 (myInterface)myObject1; 22. Class Inheritance Keywords: base virtual abstract sealed

• 42. Cheating at the Conversion

  Cheating at the Conversion

• 43. Where to Go from Here

  Where to Go from Here

• 44. Appendix

  I: Installing VS.NET

• 45. II: Default Project Files

  II: Default Project Files Windows Application Class Library Web Application Web Service

• 46. III: Windows Form Controls

  III: Windows Form Controls

• 47. IV: VB.NET Data Types

  IV: VB.NET Data Types

• 48. V: VB.NET Naming Conventions

  V: VB.NET Naming Conventions

• 49. Index

  Symbols and Numbers

• 50. Index_A

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