Good book

[Man T]

I have some experice in developing C# in my previous job and also have
several years in Delphi programming.
However, my current company is going to VB.NET and I need to start the
VB.NET development in 1 month's time. Any good VB.NET book for me?

 

[Kerry Moorman]

Man T,

For an experienced programmer like yourself, I would recommend "Programming
Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: The Language" by Francesco Balena.

He doesn't have a VB2008 version out as far as I know, but the VB2005 book
should be more than sufficient for getting up to speed.

Kerry Moorman

 

[B. Chernick]

Pardon my intrusion. I see the web pages but what 'download' are you
referring to?

(Always helps to have every pdf/chm close at hand.)

 

[Miro]

I second the "Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: The Language - by
Francesco Balena".

Im about 3/4 of the way through it, and it really gives you good examples
chapter by chapter. Its a microsoft press book. You might be able to grab
a cheaper copy of it on ebay or something.

If you are going to be doing some database stuff, ( again 2005 version
book ) ,
"Programming ADO.Net 2.0 Core Reference by David Sceppa" was pretty good
too. I was pretty pleased with that one, but I should have read a proper VB
book first prior to reading ado.net.
<I didnt know what I was 'looking for at first' and read some books in
backwards order>

Also - take a look at the "Hitchhikers' Guide to Visual Studio and SQL
Server" by William R Vaughn.
You will notice Bill posts on some of these newgroups help as well.

Miro

 

[kimiraikkonen]

Man T,

For an experienced programmer like yourself, I would recommend "Programming
Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: The Language" by Francesco Balena.

He doesn't have a VB2008 version out as far as I know, but the VB2005 book
should be more than sufficient for getting up to speed.

Kerry Moorman





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Right, I haven't seen Francesco Balena's 2008 book and only i have
2005 version which was written in 2006 (If i remember correct),
As .NET 2.0 is still being used widely (as far as i know), you can
focus on the core types of .NET 2.0 with this book:

For contents and more info, you can visit:
http://www.dotnet2themax.com/ProgrammingVB2005.aspx

And it has downloadable source codes on MS site.(Link is written
inside the book)

Onur Güzel