Visual Basic 2012 Programmer's Reference is a language tutorial and a reference. The tutorial focuses on providing basic material suitable for beginners.The second part of the book is a reference that quickly allows programmers to locate information for specific language features. The entries in these appendices allow the reader to quickly review the details of important programming, objects, properties, methods, and events.
Visual Basic 2012 Programmer's Reference is fully revised to cover the latest features of the 2012 release, including:
• Developing Win8-compatible "Metro" applications using pre-loaded templates
• New search features and support for WPF designers
• Developing smartphone apps using VB with WPF
• New VB language features include:
• Asynch and Await - These keywords make it easier to perform certain asynchronous tasks.
• Iterators - Visual Basic programs will now be able to define iterators, routines that return objects in a particular order.
• Plus other new features that have not yet been announced.

About the Author

Rod Stephens is a VB programming guru, with more than 18 programming books to his credit, including Wrox Visual Basic Programmer's Reference. Rod's VB Helper Website (vb-helper.com) receives several million hits per month and provides thousands of pages of tips, tricks, and code examples for VB programmers.

Table of Contents:
PART I: IDE CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE IDE CHAPTER 2: MENUS, TOOLBARS, AND WINDOWS CHAPTER 3: WINDOWS FORMS DESIGNER CHAPTER 4: WPF DESIGNER CHAPTER 5: VISUAL BASIC CODE EDITOR CHAPTER 6: DEBUGGING PART II: GETTING STARTED CHAPTER 7: SELECTING WINDOWS FORMS CONTROLS CHAPTER 8: USING WINDOWS FORMS CONTROLS CHAPTER 9: WINDOWS FORMS CHAPTER 10: SELECTING WPF CONTROLS CHAPTER 11: USING WPF CONTROLS CHAPTER 12: WPF WINDOWS CHAPTER 13: PROGRAM AND MODULE STRUCTURE CHAPTER 14: DATA TYPES, VARIABLES, AND CONSTANTS CHAPTER 15: OPERATORS CHAPTER 16: SUBROUTINES AND FUNCTIONS CHAPTER 17: PROGRAM CONTROL STATEMENTS CHAPTER 18: ERROR HANDLING CHAPTER 19: DATABASE CONTROLS AND OBJECTS CHAPTER 20: LINQ CHAPTER 21: METRO-STYLE APPLICATIONS CHAPTER 22: OOP CONCEPTS CHAPTER 24: NAMESPACES CHAPTER 25: COLLECTION CLASSES CHAPTER 26: GENERICS CHAPTER 27: PRINTING CHAPTER 28: CONFIGURATION AND RESOURCES CHAPTER 29: STREAMS CHAPTER 30: FILESYSTEM OBJECTS