Best manuals for Visual Basic .NET?

[kingswood]

Do any of you have any ideas as to which book/s I should get to learn VB .NET? I will be getting the Deluxe Learning Edition (Microsoft Press) tomorrow- but any recommendations would be helpful.

 

Basically I need to study all aspects of VB (not VB Script) including the development cycle to HND/Degree level.

 

Thanks people!

 

Paul

[mac_shinobi]

I thought vb.net and vb 2005 express edition beta 2 ( or whatever version of vb 2005 you have ) are different ( 2005 obviously being the newer version ). If that's the case then why do you want vb.net books ?

 

Anyway I know this may or may not help but this site has a lot of examples in vb :

 

http://vbnet.mvps.org/

 

I think that site is more geared towards vb 6 but can be ported / converted.

 

Just as a simple example if you open it up and in vb 2005 the message box function or w/e you want to call it would be :

 

MessageBox.Show("The Message you want to display")

 

I also tried and tested this :

 

MsgBox("The Message you want to display")

 

And that worked as well

 

I am guessing that this must be a backwards compatibility feature of 2005 or something weird lol.

 

Anyway I dont know about you but I am having a lot of fun with this vb 2005 *grins*

[mac_shinobi]

From what I am finding with regards to porting / converting vb 6 to .NET it looks like it is a lot easier just to re write the code then to port it just as an FYI and it probably isnt an issue for you anyway since you dont use vb 6

[mac_shinobi]

Here is a URL for reading with regards to porting / converting from vb 6 to .NET :

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvbpj01/html/gs0601.asp

[kingswood]

"I thought vb.net and vb 2005 express edition beta 2 ( or whatever version of vb 2005 you have ) are different ( 2005 obviously being the newer version ). If that's the case then why do you want vb.net books ?"

 

Because:

 

(1) VB 2005 is only beta

 

(2) Documentation in the form of manuals and training materials for VB 2005 are in short supply at the moment

 

(3) My HND requires that I learn VB 2003 .NET since programming courses of this nature tend to run behind a little

 

Hope that answers your point.

 

Paul

[kingswood]

"From what I am finding with regards to porting / converting vb 6 to .NET it looks like it is a lot easier just to re write the code then to port it just as an FYI and it probably isnt an issue for you anyway since you dont use vb 6 "

 

VB 6 first came out when--1998? If you haven't started moving over yet you have some serious issues to contend with (not least moving from COM to .NET framework). But here's a page that will help:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A656371A-B5C0-4D40-B015-0CAA02634FAE&displaylang=en

 

MS have plenty to help the VB 6 programmer get their apps as far in to .NET as they can. But that won't matter to you much since you don't program for VB 6 in any case- learning VB with 6 is different from being a developer in need of some porting or at the least transition tools...

 

Paul

[mac_shinobi]

ok im downloading that now and will take a look at that tommorow.

 

Yes those points do answer my questions and I will be moving over to .NET but obviously it will take me some time because I have all this server and networking stuff to learn as well.

 

Now I know how a blender feels , mixing all this stuff into one :-S

 

Hopefully I dont have any blades to contend with