Sometimes you just need to solve a problem and get on with your work. To that

end, Visual Basic 2008 Recipes is a compendium of practical solutions for busy

VB .NET programmers. Create time for the more interesting aspects of your VB

.NET project by solving common problems with the practical solutions and dozens

of code examples in this book. Important new .NET 3.5 technologies, such as

Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) and Language Integrated Query (LINQ), are

covered, and each chapter addresses a specific problem domain, including

database access, multimedia, XML manipulation, networking, and security. The

code is free to download so you can use the recipes immediately.

* Take advantage of quality, ready杕ade solutions to common Visual Basic

programming problems.

* Avoid the tedium of having to reinvent the wheel. Focus instead on the

more interesting problems specific to your application.

* Learn from and be inspired by what the authors have done. Use their work

as stepping stones to solve even more complex problems.

What you抣l learn

* Cleanly separate user杋nterface logic from business logic through the use

of .NET 3.5抯 WPF.

* Store data to and retrieve data from your relational database using LINQ.

* Manipulate XML data using LINQ.

* Make your programs dynamically configurable through the judicious

application of reflection.

* Take advantage of multiple CPU cores by writing multithreaded

applications.

* Integrate multimedia into your Visual Basic projects.

Who is this book for?

Visual Basic 2008 Recipes is written for Visual Basic developers who have at

least some experience in developing Visual Basic solutions. The book contains

recipes appealing to intermediate through advanced developers.

Table Of Contents

About the Author xv

About the Technical Reviewer xvii

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction xxi

CHAPTER 1 Application Development 1

CHAPTER 2 Data Manipulation 51

CHAPTER 3 Application Domains, Reflection, and Metadata 97

CHAPTER 4 Threads, Processes, and Synchronization 129

CHAPTER 5 Files, Directories, and I/O 183

CHAPTER 6 Language Integrated Query (LINQ) 233

CHAPTER 7 LINQ to XML and XML Processing 263

CHAPTER 8 Database Access 299

CHAPTER 9 Windows Forms 343

CHAPTER 10 Multimedia 391

CHAPTER 11 Networking and Remoting 437

CHAPTER 12 Security and Cryptography 495

CHAPTER 13 Code Interoperability 539

CHAPTER 14 Commonly Used Interfaces and Patterns 561

CHAPTER 15 Windows Integration 605

INDEX 631