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VB.NETCoreClassesinaNutshell
ByBudiKurniawan,TedNeward

Publisher :O'Reilly
PubDate :June2002
ISBN :0-596-00257-2
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VB.NETCoreClassesinaNutshell,providesaconcise
andthoroughreferencetothetypesfoundinthecore
namespacesofthe.NETFrameworkClassLibrary.A
companiontoVB.NETLanguageinaNutshell,thisisa
referencethatVB.NETprogrammerswillturnto
repeatedly.DuetoaspecialpartnershipbetweenO'Reilly

andMicrosoft,thisbookalsoincludesaCDthatintegrates
thebook'sreferenceintoVisualStudio.NET.





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Preface

VB.NETCoreClassesinaNutshell
ByBudiKurniawan,TedNeward

Publisher :O'Reilly

PubDate :June2002
ISBN :0-596-00257-2
Pages :574
Slots :1



WhoThisBookIsFor



HowThisBookIsStructured



What'sontheCD



ConventionsUsedinThisBook



HowtoContactUs



HowtheReferenceWasGenerated

Acknowledgments





PartI:Introduction
Chapter1.Introduction



Section1.1.Beforethe.NETFCL



Section1.2.The.NETFrameworkClassLibrary



Section1.3.Workingwiththe.NETFCL



Section1.4.TheTypesofa.NETNamespace



Section1.5.Approachingthe.NETFCL

PartII:.NETCoreClassesQuickReference
Chapter2.Reference



Section2.1.FindingaQuick-ReferenceEntry



Section2.2.ReadingaQuick-ReferenceEntry








Chapter3.Microsoft.Win32



PowerModeChangedEventArgs

PowerModeChangedEventHandler



PowerModes



Registry



RegistryHive



RegistryKey



SessionEndedEventArgs



SessionEndedEventHandler



SessionEndingEventArgs

SessionEndingEventHandler



SessionEndReasons



SystemEvents



TimerElapsedEventArgs



TimerElapsedEventHandler



UserPreferenceCategory



UserPreferenceChangedEventArgs

UserPreferenceChangedEventHandler



UserPreferenceChangingEventArgs



UserPreferenceChangingEventHandler




Chapter4.System



Activator



AppDomain



AppDomainSetup

AppDomainUnloadedException



ApplicationException



ArgIterator



ArgumentException



ArgumentNullException



ArgumentOutOfRangeException



ArithmeticException



Array

ArrayTypeMismatchException



AssemblyLoadEventArgs



AssemblyLoadEventHandler



AsyncCallback



Attribute



AttributeTargets



AttributeUsageAttribute

BadImageFormatException



BitConverter



Boolean



Buffer




Byte



CannotUnloadAppDomainException



Char



CharEnumerator

CLSCompliantAttribute



Console



ContextBoundObject



ContextMarshalException



ContextStaticAttribute



Convert



CrossAppDomainDelegate

DateTime



DayOfWeek



DBNull



Decimal



Delegate



DivideByZeroException



DllNotFoundException



Double

DuplicateWaitObjectException



EntryPointNotFoundException



Enum



Environment



Environment.SpecialFolder



EventArgs



EventHandler

Exception



ExecutionEngineException



FieldAccessException



FlagsAttribute



FormatException



GC



Guid



IAsyncResult

ICloneable



IComparable



IConvertible



ICustomFormatter



IDisposable



IFormatProvider



IFormattable

IndexOutOfRangeException



Int16



Int32




Int64



IntPtr



InvalidCastException



InvalidOperationException

InvalidProgramException



IServiceProvider



LoaderOptimization



LoaderOptimizationAttribute



LocalDataStoreSlot



MarshalByRefObject



Math



MemberAccessException

MethodAccessException



MissingFieldException



MissingMemberException



MissingMethodException



MTAThreadAttribute



MulticastDelegate



MulticastNotSupportedException

NonSerializedAttribute



NotFiniteNumberException



NotImplementedException



NotSupportedException



NullReferenceException



Object



ObjectDisposedException



ObsoleteAttribute

OperatingSystem



OutOfMemoryException



OverflowException



ParamArrayAttribute



PlatformID



PlatformNotSupportedException



Random

RankException



ResolveEventArgs



ResolveEventHandler



RuntimeTypeHandle



SByte



SerializableAttribute



Single



StackOverflowException

STAThreadAttribute



String




SystemException



ThreadStaticAttribute



TimeSpan



TimeZone



Type

TypeCode



TypeInitializationException



TypeLoadException



TypeUnloadedException



UInt16



UInt32



UInt64



UIntPtr

UnauthorizedAccessException



UnhandledExceptionEventArgs



UnhandledExceptionEventHandler



Uri



UriBuilder



UriFormatException



UriHostNameType

UriPartial



ValueType



Version



Void



WeakReference




Chapter5.System.Collections



ArrayList

BitArray



CaseInsensitiveComparer



CaseInsensitiveHashCodeProvider



CollectionBase



Comparer



DictionaryBase



DictionaryEntry



Hashtable

ICollection



IComparer



IDictionary



IDictionaryEnumerator



IEnumerable



IEnumerator



IHashCodeProvider

IList




Queue



ReadOnlyCollectionBase



SortedList



Stack




Chapter6.System.Collections.Specialized



BitVector32

BitVector32.Section



CollectionsUtil



HybridDictionary



ListDictionary



NameObjectCollectionBase



NameObjectCollectionBase.KeysCollection



NameValueCollection



StringCollection

StringDictionary



StringEnumerator




Chapter7.System.Diagnostics



BooleanSwitch



ConditionalAttribute



CounterCreationData



CounterCreationDataCollection

CounterSample



CounterSampleCalculator



Debug



DebuggableAttribute



Debugger



DebuggerHiddenAttribute



DebuggerStepThroughAttribute



DefaultTraceListener

EntryWrittenEventArgs



EntryWrittenEventHandler



EventLog



EventLogEntry



EventLogEntryCollection



EventLogEntryType



EventLogInstaller

EventLogPermission



EventLogPermissionAccess



EventLogPermissionAttribute



EventLogPermissionEntry



EventLogPermissionEntryCollection



EventLogTraceListener




FileVersionInfo

InstanceData



InstanceDataCollection



InstanceDataCollectionCollection



MonitoringDescriptionAttribute



PerformanceCounter



PerformanceCounterCategory



PerformanceCounterInstaller



PerformanceCounterPermission

PerformanceCounterPermissionAccess



PerformanceCounterPermissionAttribute



PerformanceCounterPermissionEntry



PerformanceCounterPermissionEntryCollection



PerformanceCounterType



Process



ProcessModule

ProcessModuleCollection



ProcessPriorityClass



ProcessStartInfo



ProcessThread



ProcessThreadCollection



ProcessWindowStyle



StackFrame



StackTrace

Switch



TextWriterTraceListener



ThreadPriorityLevel



ThreadState



ThreadWaitReason



Trace



TraceLevel

TraceListener



TraceListenerCollection



TraceSwitch




Chapter8.System.Globalization



Calendar



CalendarWeekRule



CompareInfo



CompareOptions

CultureInfo



CultureTypes



DateTimeFormatInfo



DateTimeStyles




DaylightTime



GregorianCalendar



GregorianCalendarTypes

HebrewCalendar



HijriCalendar



JapaneseCalendar



JulianCalendar



KoreanCalendar



NumberFormatInfo



NumberStyles

RegionInfo



SortKey



StringInfo



TaiwanCalendar



TextElementEnumerator



TextInfo



ThaiBuddhistCalendar



UnicodeCategory

Chapter9.System.IO



BinaryReader



BinaryWriter



BufferedStream



Directory



DirectoryInfo



DirectoryNotFoundException

EndOfStreamException



ErrorEventArgs



ErrorEventHandler



File



FileAccess



FileAttributes



FileInfo



FileLoadException

FileMode



FileNotFoundException



FileShare



FileStream



FileSystemEventArgs



FileSystemEventHandler



FileSystemInfo

FileSystemWatcher



InternalBufferOverflowException



IODescriptionAttribute




IOException



MemoryStream



NotifyFilters



Path

PathTooLongException



RenamedEventArgs



RenamedEventHandler



SeekOrigin



Stream



StreamReader



StreamWriter



StringReader

StringWriter



TextReader



TextWriter



WaitForChangedResult



WatcherChangeTypes




Chapter10.System.IO.IsolatedStorage



INormalizeForIsolatedStorage

IsolatedStorage



IsolatedStorageException



IsolatedStorageFile



IsolatedStorageFileStream



IsolatedStorageScope




Chapter11.System.Net



AuthenticationManager

Authorization



Cookie



CookieCollection



CookieContainer



CookieException



CredentialCache



Dns



DnsPermission

DnsPermissionAttribute



EndPoint



EndpointPermission



FileWebRequest



FileWebResponse



GlobalProxySelection



HttpContinueDelegate

HttpStatusCode




HttpVersion



HttpWebRequest



HttpWebResponse



IAuthenticationModule



ICertificatePolicy



ICredentials



IPAddress

IPEndPoint



IPHostEntry



IWebProxy



IWebRequestCreate



NetworkAccess



NetworkCredential



ProtocolViolationException

ServicePoint



ServicePointManager



SocketAddress



SocketPermission



SocketPermissionAttribute



TransportType



WebClient



WebException

WebExceptionStatus



WebHeaderCollection



WebPermission



WebPermissionAttribute



WebProxy



WebRequest



WebResponse

Chapter12.System.Net.Sockets



AddressFamily



LingerOption



MulticastOption



NetworkStream



ProtocolFamily



ProtocolType

SelectMode



Socket



SocketException



SocketFlags



SocketOptionLevel



SocketOptionName



SocketShutdown




SocketType

TcpClient



TcpListener



UdpClient




Chapter13.System.Reflection



AmbiguousMatchException



Assembly



AssemblyAlgorithmIdAttribute

AssemblyCompanyAttribute



AssemblyConfigurationAttribute



AssemblyCopyrightAttribute



AssemblyCultureAttribute



AssemblyDefaultAliasAttribute



AssemblyDelaySignAttribute



AssemblyDescriptionAttribute

AssemblyFileVersionAttribute



AssemblyFlagsAttribute



AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute



AssemblyKeyFileAttribute



AssemblyKeyNameAttribute



AssemblyName



AssemblyNameFlags



AssemblyNameProxy

AssemblyProductAttribute



AssemblyTitleAttribute



AssemblyTrademarkAttribute



AssemblyVersionAttribute



Binder



BindingFlags



CallingConventions

ConstructorInfo



CustomAttributeFormatException



DefaultMemberAttribute



EventAttributes



EventInfo



FieldAttributes



FieldInfo



ICustomAttributeProvider

InterfaceMapping



InvalidFilterCriteriaException



IReflect



ManifestResourceInfo



MemberFilter




MemberInfo



MemberTypes

MethodAttributes



MethodBase



MethodImplAttributes



MethodInfo



Missing



Module



ModuleResolveEventHandler



ParameterAttributes

ParameterInfo



ParameterModifier



Pointer



PropertyAttributes



PropertyInfo



ReflectionTypeLoadException



ResourceAttributes

ResourceLocation



StrongNameKeyPair



TargetException



TargetInvocationException



TargetParameterCountException



TypeAttributes



TypeDelegator



TypeFilter

Chapter14.System.Reflection.Emit



AssemblyBuilder



AssemblyBuilderAccess



ConstructorBuilder



CustomAttributeBuilder



EnumBuilder



EventBuilder

EventToken



FieldBuilder



FieldToken



FlowControl



ILGenerator



Label



LocalBuilder

MethodBuilder



MethodRental



MethodToken



ModuleBuilder




OpCode



OpCodes



OpCodeType



OperandType

PackingSize



ParameterBuilder



ParameterToken



PEFileKinds



PropertyBuilder



PropertyToken



SignatureHelper

SignatureToken



StackBehaviour



StringToken



TypeBuilder



TypeToken



UnmanagedMarshal




Chapter15.System.Runtime.InteropServices

ArrayWithOffset



AssemblyRegistrationFlags



CallingConvention



CharSet



ClassInterfaceAttribute



ClassInterfaceType



CoClassAttribute



ComAliasNameAttribute

ComConversionLossAttribute



COMException



ComImportAttribute



ComInterfaceType



ComMemberType



ComRegisterFunctionAttribute



ComSourceInterfacesAttribute

ComUnregisterFunctionAttribute



ComVisibleAttribute



CurrencyWrapper



DispatchWrapper



DispIdAttribute



DllImportAttribute



ErrorWrapper



ExtensibleClassFactory

ExternalException



FieldOffsetAttribute




GCHandle



GCHandleType



GuidAttribute



HandleRef



IDispatchImplAttribute

IDispatchImplType



InAttribute



InterfaceTypeAttribute



InvalidComObjectException



InvalidOleVariantTypeException



IRegistrationServices



LayoutKind



LCIDConversionAttribute

Marshal



MarshalAsAttribute



MarshalDirectiveException



ObjectCreationDelegate



OptionalAttribute



OutAttribute



PreserveSigAttribute

ProgIdAttribute



RegistrationServices



RuntimeEnvironment



SafeArrayRankMismatchException



SafeArrayTypeMismatchException



SEHException



StructLayoutAttribute



UnknownWrapper

UnmanagedType



VarEnum



IExpando




Chapter16.System.Runtime.Serialization



Formatter



FormatterConverter



FormatterServices

IDeserializationCallback



IFormatter



IFormatterConverter



IObjectReference



ISerializable



ISerializationSurrogate



ISurrogateSelector

ObjectIDGenerator




ObjectManager



SerializationBinder



SerializationEntry



SerializationException



SerializationInfo



SerializationInfoEnumerator



StreamingContext

StreamingContextStates



SurrogateSelector




Chapter17.System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters



BinaryFormatter



FormatterAssemblyStyle



FormatterTypeStyle



IFieldInfo

ISoapMessage



ServerFault



SoapFault



SoapFormatter



SoapMessage




Chapter18.System.Text



ASCIIEncoding

Decoder



Encoder



Encoding



StringBuilder



UnicodeEncoding



UTF7Encoding



UTF8Encoding

Chapter19.System.Text.RegularExpressions



Capture



CaptureCollection



Group



GroupCollection



Match



MatchCollection



MatchEvaluator

Regex



RegexCompilationInfo



RegexOptions




Chapter20.System.Threading




ApartmentState



AutoResetEvent



Interlocked

IOCompletionCallback



LockCookie



ManualResetEvent



Monitor



Mutex



NativeOverlapped



Overlapped

ReaderWriterLock



RegisteredWaitHandle



SynchronizationLockException



Thread



ThreadAbortException



ThreadExceptionEventArgs



ThreadExceptionEventHandler



ThreadInterruptedException

ThreadPool



ThreadPriority



ThreadStart



ThreadState



ThreadStateException



Timeout



Timer

TimerCallback



WaitCallback



WaitHandle



WaitOrTimerCallback




Chapter21.System.Timers



ElapsedEventArgs



ElapsedEventHandler



Timer

TimersDescriptionAttribute




Chapter22.System.Xml



EntityHandling



Formatting



IHasXmlNode



IXmlLineInfo



NameTable

ReadState



ValidationType




WhitespaceHandling



WriteState



XmlAttribute



XmlAttributeCollection



XmlCDataSection

XmlCharacterData



XmlComment



XmlConvert



XmlDataDocument



XmlDeclaration



XmlDocument



XmlDocumentFragment



XmlDocumentType

XmlElement



XmlEntity



XmlEntityReference



XmlException



XmlImplementation



XmlLinkedNode



XmlNamedNodeMap

XmlNamespaceManager



XmlNameTable



XmlNode



XmlNodeChangedAction



XmlNodeChangedEventArgs



XmlNodeChangedEventHandler



XmlNodeList



XmlNodeOrder

XmlNodeReader



XmlNodeType



XmlNotation



XmlParserContext



XmlProcessingInstruction



XmlQualifiedName



XmlReader

XmlResolver



XmlSignificantWhitespace



XmlSpace



XmlText



XmlTextReader



XmlTextWriter



XmlTokenizedType



XmlUrlResolver

XmlValidatingReader




XmlWhitespace



XmlWriter




Chapter23.System.Xml.XPath



IXPathNavigable



XmlCaseOrder



XmlDataType

XmlSortOrder



XPathDocument



XPathException



XPathExpression



XPathNamespaceScope



XPathNavigator



XPathNodeIterator

XPathNodeType



XPathResultType




Chapter24.System.Xml.Xsl



IXsltContextFunction



IXsltContextVariable



XsltArgumentList



XsltCompileException

XsltContext



XsltException



XslTransform





PartIII:Appendixes



AppendixA.RegularExpressions



AppendixB.FormatSpecifiers



SectionB.1.PictureFormatSpecifiers

SectionB.2.DateTimeFormatSpecifiers




AppendixC.DataMarshaling



AppendixD.NamespacesandAssemblies



Type,Method,Property,Event,andFieldIndex



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E



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G



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K

L



M



N



O



P



Q



R

S



T



U



V



W



X



Y



Z

Colophon



Index


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Preface
ThisbookisadesktopreferenceforthecoreclassesinMicrosoft's.NET
FrameworkClassLibrary(FCL).Itisintendedasacompanionvolumeto
VisualBasic.NETLanguageinaNutshell,SecondEdition,which
providesareferencetotheVisualBasiclanguage.
VisualBasic.NETCoreClassesinaNutshellisdividedintotwoparts.
PartI,whichconsistsofasinglechapter,offersaverybriefoverviewof
andintroductiontothe.NETFCL.
PartIIisaquickreferencetothecoreclassesoftheFCL22ofthemost
importantnamespacesoftheFCLandtheirmorethan700types,
completewithnamespacemaps,typedescriptions,membersignatures
usingVB.NETsyntax,andusefulcrossreferencesandannotations.Part
IIisalsoavailableontheCD-ROMthataccompaniesthebook(see
fortheinformationavailableon
theCD-ROM).


WhoThisBookIsFor
Asareferenceguidetothecoreclasses,wethinkyou'llfindVisualBasic
.NETCoreClassesinaNutshelltobeanessentialbookregardlessof
yourlevelofexperiencewithVisualBasic.Whetheryouarean
experiencedVisualBasicdeveloperorarelativelynewprogrammerjust
beginningtoworkwithVisualBasicandthe.NETplatform,you'llfindthat

VisualBasic.NETCoreClassesinaNutshellprovidesanextremely
helpfuldescriptionofeachtypeinthenamespacesdocumentedinPartII,
alongwithausefullistoftypemembersthatfeaturesVBsyntax.


HowThisBookIsStructured
Thisbookconsistsoftwoparts:asingle-chapterintroduction,anda
referenceguideto22ofthecorenamespacesofthe.NETFramework
ClassLibrary.
ThesinglechapterinPartIexaminesthesignificanceofthe.NET
FrameworkClassLibrary,providesasummaryofitscontents,discusses
thetypesfoundin.NETnamespaces,andofferssomesuggestionsfor
exploringtheFCL.
PartIIconsistsof22chapters,eachofwhichisdevotedtooneofthe22
namespacesdocumentedinthisbook.Thesenamespacesprovidethe
core(orsystem-level)classesdefinedinthe.NETFCL.Excludedarethe
namespaceswhoseclassesaredesignedtoprovidesupportfor
applicationdevelopment.Themostnotableoftheseexcluded
namespacesandtheirchildnamespacesareSystem.Data,System.Web,
andSystem.Windows.Forms.
PartIIincludeschaptersthatdocumentthefollowing.NETFCL
namespaces:
Microsoft.Win32
System
System.Collections
System.Collections.Specialized
System.Diagnostics
System.Globalization
System.IO
System.IO.IsolatedStorage

System.Net
System.Net.Sockets
System.Reflection
System.Reflection.Emit
System.Runtime.InteropServices
System.Runtime.Serialization


System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters
System.Text
System.Text.RegularExpressions
System.Threading
System.Timers
System.XML
System.XML.XPath
System.Xml.Xsl
Chapter2explainshowtogetthemostfromthisreference.