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Visual Basic
.NET
Visual Basic .NET
Notes for Professionals
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Contents
About
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Chapter 1: Getting started with Visual Basic .NET Language
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Section 1.1: Hello World
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Section 1.2: Hello World on a Textbox upon Clicking of a Button
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Section 1.3: Region
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Section 1.4: Creating a simple Calculator to get familiar with the interface and code
.......................................... 4
Chapter 2: Declaring variables
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Section 2.1: Declaring and assigning a variable using a primitive type
................................................................... 8
Section 2.2: Levels of declaration – Local and Member variables
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Section 2.3: Example of Access Modifiers
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Chapter 3: Introduction to Syntax
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Section 3.1: Intellisense Helper
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Section 3.2: Declaring a Variable
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Section 3.3: Comments
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Section 3.4: Modifiers
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Section 3.5: Object Initializers
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Section 3.6: Collection Initializer
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Section 3.7: Writing a function
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Chapter 4: Operators
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Section 4.1: String Concatenation
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Section 4.2: Math
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Section 4.3: Assignment
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Section 4.4: Comparison
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Section 4.5: Bitwise
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Chapter 5: Conditions
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Section 5.1: If operator
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Section 5.2: IF...Then...Else
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Chapter 6: Short-Circuiting Operators (AndAlso - OrElse)
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Section 6.1: OrElse Usage
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Section 6.2: AndAlso Usage
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Section 6.3: Avoiding NullReferenceException
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Chapter 7: Date
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Section 7.1: Converting (Parsing) a String to a Date
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Section 7.2: Converting a Date To A String
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Chapter 8: Array
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Section 8.1: Array definition
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Section 8.2: Null Array Variables
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Section 8.3: Array initialization
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Section 8.4: Declare a single-dimension array and set array element values
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Section 8.5: Jagged Array Initialization
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Section 8.6: Non-zero lower bounds
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Section 8.7: Referencing Same Array from Two Variables
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Section 8.8: Multidimensional Array initialization
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Chapter 9: Lists
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Section 9.1: Add items to a List
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Section 9.2: Check if item exists in a List
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Section 9.3: Loop through items in list
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Section 9.4: Create a List
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Section 9.5: Remove items from a List
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Section 9.6: Retrieve items from a List
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Chapter 10: Enum
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Section 10.1: GetNames()
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Section 10.2: HasFlag()
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Section 10.3: Enum definition
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Section 10.4: Member initialization
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Section 10.5: The Flags attribute
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Section 10.6: GetValues()
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Section 10.7: String parsing
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Section 10.8: ToString()
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Section 10.9: Determine whether a Enum has FlagsAttribute specified or not
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Section 10.10: For-each flag (flag iteration)
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Section 10.11: Determine the amount of flags in a flag combination
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Section 10.12: Find the nearest value in a Enum
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Chapter 11: Dictionaries
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Section 11.1: Create a dictionary filled with values
.................................................................................................... 45
Section 11.2: Loop through a dictionary and print all entries
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Section 11.3: Checking for key already in dictionary - data reduction
................................................................... 45
Section 11.4: Getting a dictionary value
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Chapter 12: Looping
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Section 12.1: For...Next
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Section 12.2: For Each...Next loop for looping through collection of items
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Section 12.3: Short Circuiting
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Section 12.4: While loop to iterate while some condition is true
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Section 12.5: Nested Loop
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Section 12.6: Do...Loop
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Chapter 13: File Handling
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Section 13.1: Write Data to a File
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Section 13.2: Read All Contents of a File
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Section 13.3: Write Lines Individually to a Text File using StreamWriter
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Chapter 14: File/Folder Compression
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Section 14.1: Adding File Compression to your project
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Section 14.2: Creating zip archive from directory
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Section 14.3: Extracting zip archive to directory
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Section 14.4: Create zip archive dynamicaly
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Chapter 15: Connection Handling
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Section 15.1: Public connection property
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Chapter 16: Data Access
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Section 16.1: Read field from Database
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Section 16.2: Simple Function to read from Database and return as DataTable
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Chapter 17: Type conversion
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Section 17.1: Converting Text of The Textbox to an Integer
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Chapter 18: ByVal and ByRef keywords
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Section 18.1: ByRef keyword
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Section 18.2: ByVal keyword
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Chapter 19: Console
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Section 19.1: Console.ReadLine()
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Section 19.2: Console.Read()
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Section 19.3: Console.ReadKey()
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Section 19.4: Prototype of command line prompt
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Section 19.5: Console.WriteLine()
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Chapter 20: Functions
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Section 20.1: Defining a Function
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Section 20.2: Defining a Function #2
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Chapter 21: Recursion
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Section 21.1: Compute nth Fibonacci number
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Chapter 22: Random
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Section 22.1: Declaring an instance
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Section 22.2: Generate a random number from an instance of Random
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Chapter 23: Classes
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Section 23.1: Abstract Classes
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Section 23.2: Creating classes
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Chapter 24: Generics
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Section 24.1: Create a generic class
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Section 24.2: Instance of a Generic Class
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Section 24.3: Define a 'generic' class
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Section 24.4: Use a generic class
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Section 24.5: Limit the possible types given
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Section 24.6: Create a new instance of the given type
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Chapter 25: Disposable objects
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Section 25.1: Basic concept of IDisposable
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Section 25.2: Declaring more objects in one Using
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Chapter 26: NullReferenceException
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Section 26.1: Empty Return
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Section 26.2: Uninitialized variable
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Chapter 27: Using Statement
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Section 27.1: See examples under Disposable objects
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Chapter 28: Option Strict
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Section 28.1: Why Use It?
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Section 28.2: How to Switch It On
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Chapter 29: Option Explicit
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Section 29.1: What is it?
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Section 29.2: How to switch it on?
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Chapter 30: Option Infer
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Section 30.1: How to enable/disable it
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Section 30.2: What is it?
.............................................................................................................................................. 78
Section 30.3: When to use type inference
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Chapter 31: Error Handling
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Section 31.1: Try...Catch...Finally Statement
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Section 31.2: Creating custom exception and throwing
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Section 31.3: Try Catch in Database Operation
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Section 31.4: The Un-catchable Exception
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Section 31.5: Critical Exceptions
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Chapter 32: OOP Keywords
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Section 32.1: Defining a class
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Section 32.2: Inheritance Modifiers (on classes)
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Section 32.3: Inheritance Modifiers (on properties and methods)
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Section 32.4: MyBase
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Section 32.5: Me vs MyClass
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Section 32.6: Overloading
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Section 32.7: Shadows
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Section 32.8: Interfaces
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Chapter 33: Extension methods
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Section 33.1: Creating an extension method
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Section 33.2: Making the language more functional with extension methods
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Section 33.3: Getting Assembly Version From Strong Name
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Section 33.4: Padding Numerics
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Chapter 34: Reflection
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Section 34.1: Retrieve Properties for an Instance of a Class
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Section 34.2: Get a method and invoke it
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Section 34.3: Create an instance of a generic type
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Section 34.4: Get the members of a type
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Chapter 35: Visual Basic 14.0 Features
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Section 35.1: Null conditional operator
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Section 35.2: String interpolation
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Section 35.3: Read-Only Auto-Properties
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Section 35.4: NameOf operator
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Section 35.5: Multiline string literals
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Section 35.6: Partial Modules and Interfaces
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Section 35.7: Comments after implicit line continuation
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Section 35.8: #Region directive improvements
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Chapter 36: LINQ
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Section 36.1: Selecting from array with simple condition
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Section 36.2: Mapping array by Select clause
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Section 36.3: Ordering output
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Section 36.4: Generating Dictionary From IEnumerable
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Section 36.5: Projection
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Section 36.6: Getting distinct values (using the Distinct method)
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Chapter 37: FTP server
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Section 37.1: Download file from FTP server
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Section 37.2: Download file from FTP server when login required
...................................................................... 103
Section 37.3: Upload file to FTP server
................................................................................................................... 103
Section 37.4: Upload file to FTP server when login required
................................................................................ 103
Chapter 38: Working with Windows Forms
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Section 38.1: Using the default Form instance
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Section 38.2: Passing Data From One Form To Another
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Chapter 39: Google Maps in a Windows Form
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Section 39.1: How to use a Google Map in a Windows Form
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Chapter 40: WinForms SpellCheckBox
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Section 40.1: ElementHost WPF TextBox
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Chapter 41: GDI+
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Section 41.1: Draw Shapes
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Section 41.2: Fill Shapes
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