Beginning Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 is designed to teach you how to write useful programs in Visual Basic 2008 with quick and easy as possible. There are two kinds of beginners for whom this book is ideal: You re a beginner to programming? And you? Have chosen Visual Basic 2008 as a place to start. Have you been coming? From Fortran or Visual Basic 6, you? Will find that this book makes you quickly up to speed on what you need to know to get the most out of Visual Basic 2008. Once we have been taught? You are the basics of making applications work (creating windows and controls, how the code you have to deal with unexpected events, what object-oriented programming, how to use it in your application, and so on), we? Will demonstrate some areas you may want to try your hand in front. To this end, the book is structured as follows: Chapters 1 through 9 gives an introduction to Visual Studio 2008 and Windows programming. Chapter 6 provides an introduction to XAML and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) programming. Chapter 10 provides an introduction to application debugging and error handling. Chapters 11 to 13 provide an introduction to object oriented programming objects and buildings. Chapter 14 provides an introduction to creating a Windows Forms user control. Chapter 15 provides an introduction to the graphics in Windows applications. Chapters 16 and 17 provide an introduction to programming with databases and includes Access, SQL Server, ADO.NET, and LINQ. Chapters 18 and 19 provide an introduction to ASP.NET and show you how to write applications for the Web. Chapter 20 gives a brief introduction to XML, a powerful tool to integrate your application? Apart from the language they are written in.