Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers (2nd Edition)

The chief merit of language is clearness.

Galen

High thoughts must have high language.

Aristophanes

Our life is frittered away with detail. . . . Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time.

W. S. Gilbert

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

John F.Kennedy

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn:

  • The history of the Visual Basic programming language.

  • Some basics of object technology.

  • The history of the UMLthe industry-standard object-oriented system modeling language.

  • The history of the Internet and the World Wide Web.

  • The motivation behind and an overview of Microsoft's .NET initiative, which involves the Internet in developing and using software systems.

  • To test-drive a Visual Basic 2005 application that enables you to draw on the screen.

Outline

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Microsoft's Windows® Operating System

1.3 Visual Basic

1.4 The Internet and the World Wide Web

1.5 Extensible Markup Language (XML)

1.6 Microsoft's .NET

1.7 The .NET Framework and the Common Language Runtime

1.8 Test-Driving a Visual Basic Application

1.9 (Only Required Section of the Case Study) Software Engineering Case Study: Introduction to Object Technology and the UML

1.10 Wrap-Up

1.11 Web Resources

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