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Visual Basic® 2012 Sixth Edit ion

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STARTING OUT WITH

Visual Basic® 2012 Sixth Edit ion

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Contents in Brief

Preface xvii

Chapter 1 Introduction to Programming and Visual Basic 1

Chapter 2 Creating Applications with Visual Basic 43

Chapter 3 Variables and Calculations 111

Chapter 4 Making Decisions 209

Chapter 5 Lists and Loops 285

Chapter 6 Procedures and Functions 355

Chapter 7 Multiple Forms, Modules, and Menus 403

Chapter 8 Arrays and More 469

Chapter 9 Files, Printing, and Structures 541

Chapter 10 Working with Databases 597

Chapter 11 Developing Web Applications 677

Chapter 12 Classes, Collections, and Inheritance 733

Appendix A Advanced User Interface Controls and Techniques 795

Appendix B Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 809

Appendix C Converting Mathematical Expressions to Programming Statements 821

Appendix D Answers to Checkpoints 823

Appendix E Glossary 841

Index 853

Credits 883