I need 2-3 books on VB.NET, Office automation. Any suggestions?

[Tomas]

Hi,

I have worked with VB.NET for half a year (semi-newbie). Currently I am
looking around for some books for those that crossed the starting
hurdle. There are too many books out there-make choosing, a bit of a
gamble.

If you have experience of good VB.NET books on general and office
automattion, you could recommend, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Tomas Nordlander

 

[RobinS]

I don't know what version of VB.Net you're using. I really
like Francesco Balena's book on VB:The Language. It only
covers the language, not the forms or data. I have the 2005
version, but he has earlier versions as well. This isn't
really a book for someone who's never done .Net; in each
section, he goes from simple examples to complex info
pretty quickly. I learned a lot from reading this book.

He also has a Standard Practices book that I found a lot
of neat information in.

For data binding, check out Brian Noyes's book.

If you want to know how to write a whole app, check out
Tim Patrick's new book, Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005.
I have it on order, so I can't vouch for it personally,
but there is a good review on amazon, and chapter 1 was
pretty interesting.

Hope that helps.
Robin S.

 

[Tomas]

Thanks Robin (I use 2005 VB.NET), I appriciate the recomendations, and
will get them ordered.

Tomas

 

[RobinS]

You're welcome. My copy of Tim Patrick's book came in
the mail yesterday; it looks really good. I'm looking
forward to reading it.

BTW, I don't know of any Office automation books; if
you find one, please let us know. I usually do it by
trial & error. Most of my stuff is Excel, although I've
mucked a little with Outlook and Word.

Robin S.
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[aaron.kempf]

I'd look for VSTO books.. or are you talking about VBA?

-Aaron

 

[RobinS]

My guess is that he was talking about doing OLE Automation
from VB. I looked for books on that back when I was doing
VB6, but couldn't really find anything, so I figured it out
via trial&error, and macro-record-then-fix-the-code.

My problem with VSTO is that it's a separate product from
Visual Studio, and I'm not into paying that much money for
two of them, when I can generally come up with the same
result using OLE Automation.

Robin S.
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[susiedba]

Robin

Microsoft doesn't support using COM objects anymore; you should lose
the training wheels and start using VSTO

everybody is doing it

-Susie

 

[larrylinsonjr]

no wonder you're such a crappy ass coder and you're stuck in VB

I've got 2 book shelves of Office Automation books.. typically books
about Excel 97 or Access 97 for example-- are the best resources--
because back in the 'good old days' microsoft didn't have a screwed up
marketing message..

-Larry Linson Jr

 

[RobinS]

Are you calling *me* a crappy-ass coder? Interesting
how you can pass judgment on someone without even
knowing them.

Robin S.
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[susiedba]

well you're a woman and all women are crappy ass coders

-Susie, DBA

 

[susiedba]

and you're the one that couldn't 'find a book on VBA automation'

if your search skills and your logic skills are flawed; then you MUST
be a crappy ass coder

-Susie, DBA

 

[RobinS]

There you go, making assumptions again. LOL.

Robin S.
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[RobinS]

Well, in all fairness, I didn't look for that long. It was
faster for me to figure it out on my own.

Still making assumptions, I see. You're funny.

Robin S.
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