Recommendations on a good VB.Net book or two
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Anyone have any recommendations on some good VB.Net books? I'm an old school, top-down programmer trying to get into the swing of this object oriented stuff and would appreciate some recommendations on good step by step instructional materials. Thanks.
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Anyone have any recommendations on some good VB.Net books? I'm an old school, top-down programmer trying to get into the swing of this object oriented stuff and would appreciate some recommendations on good step by step instructional materials. Thanks.
For the amount of learning curve required for VB.NET why not try C#, its a more of a purist language and fits nicely into the .NET side of things, also once C# is mastered you can all most program C/C++. BTW: what's your language background? Normski. - the next bit of code is self modifying ... jmp 0xCODE
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For the amount of learning curve required for VB.NET why not try C#, its a more of a purist language and fits nicely into the .NET side of things, also once C# is mastered you can all most program C/C++. BTW: what's your language background? Normski. - the next bit of code is self modifying ... jmp 0xCODE
My background is mostly with Visual Basic (up to version 6). I would prefer to stick with VB as it would be less of a learning curve for me, but I intend to learn C# in the future as I also have a bit of C, C++ background. The project that I will be working on needs to be written in VB.Net (as mandated by those who are funding the project)
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Anyone have any recommendations on some good VB.Net books? I'm an old school, top-down programmer trying to get into the swing of this object oriented stuff and would appreciate some recommendations on good step by step instructional materials. Thanks.
I don't actually own it yet. But I've heard good things about "Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET" by Francesco Balena. Also I own his "Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0" and it is very good. Good luck. Dan Morris _____________________________________ "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Ghandi
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Anyone have any recommendations on some good VB.Net books? I'm an old school, top-down programmer trying to get into the swing of this object oriented stuff and would appreciate some recommendations on good step by step instructional materials. Thanks.
As you said you are a programmer with VB 6 experience, I will strongly recommend Moving to VB.NET - Strategies, Concepts and Code by Dan Appleman and published by Apress (ISBN: 1893115976). Dan Appleman is a great writer, and he designed this book to help VB6 programmers move to VB.NET. I read it when I first started learning VB.NET and it really helped me get started. Thomas Brown tbrown@plains.net
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Anyone have any recommendations on some good VB.Net books? I'm an old school, top-down programmer trying to get into the swing of this object oriented stuff and would appreciate some recommendations on good step by step instructional materials. Thanks.
You *MUST* pick up Programming Visual Basic .NET by Francesco Balena. Not only is it a comprehensive reference, but you can learn from it too. I guarantee that you will keep this book around you for your entire VB.NET lifetime. Don't listen to people who say you should learn C# - after you've gotten the hang of VB.NET you'll easily move back and forth between the two languages. I admit I like C# better since it is terse, but VB.NET is a great launching point if you are already a VB developer. :) *->>Always working on my game, teach me *->>something new. cout << "dav1d\n";
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My background is mostly with Visual Basic (up to version 6). I would prefer to stick with VB as it would be less of a learning curve for me, but I intend to learn C# in the future as I also have a bit of C, C++ background. The project that I will be working on needs to be written in VB.Net (as mandated by those who are funding the project)
Yes, I think regardless of whether you choose C# for development VBers should learn it at least to the extent of being able to read it. The reason is that some parts of the documentation and some utilities use C# only. And this also applies to some examples. With .NET, C# examples are now (in most cases) open to VB and it would be a pity not to take advantage of this merely because you can't read C#. The same applies to a lesser extent to C#ers. They should be able to read VB. Kevin
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For the amount of learning curve required for VB.NET why not try C#, its a more of a purist language and fits nicely into the .NET side of things, also once C# is mastered you can all most program C/C++. BTW: what's your language background? Normski. - the next bit of code is self modifying ... jmp 0xCODE
Norm Almond wrote: once C# is mastered you can all most program C/C++. Superficially, this seems true. You will be able to understand the basic syntactical elements. But C++ is way more complicated than C# and in fact you would still have a lot to learn to write C++ according to best practices. I'm actually originally a C++ developer. But after spending lots of time with C# and then going back to C++ it looks awful by comparison. Kevin