Newbie

[HightowerC]

Wow...reading this group is a little overwhelming. Hope I'm posting to
the right place.
I'm a newbie when it comes to VB and .NET, but my company is making a
move in that direction. Just looking for advice on books, tutorials,
etc to help me transition into VB and the .NET environment (c-sharp
may be useful as well).

 

[PvdG42]

Wow...reading this group is a little overwhelming. Hope I'm posting to
the right place.
I'm a newbie when it comes to VB and .NET, but my company is making a
move in that direction. Just looking for advice on books, tutorials,
etc to help me transition into VB and the .NET environment (c-sharp
may be useful as well).

There's lots of good stuff on the MSDN site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/default.aspx

Note #3 on the left.

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Chris,

As addition to Peter, you are on the right place.

Cor

 

[HightowerC]

There's lots of good stuff on the MSDN site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/default.aspx

Note #3 on the left.

Thanks for the help!

 

[Joe C.]

Wow...reading this group is a little overwhelming. Hope I'm posting to
the right place.
I'm a newbie when it comes to VB and .NET, but my company is making a
move in that direction. Just looking for advice on books, tutorials,
etc to help me transition into VB and the .NET environment (c-sharp
may be useful as well).

that's a bit of a broad, general question. but yes, you're in the
right place (i'm a noob too and have gotten a TON of help on this
board).

are you going in the way of desktop or web development?

core vb.net principles would be essential in for both. learned most
of my vb.net in class with this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-...=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214413678&sr=1-5

it's very easy to follow and well illustrated. it's about a $100 but
i can probably dig up my electronic copy and hook you up...

there are a ton of "beginning" books from wrox and apress that are
really good too.

-joe

 

[HightowerC]

that's a bit of a broad, general question.  but yes, you're in the
right place (i'm a noob too and have gotten a TON of help on this
board).

are you going in the way of desktop or web development?

Well, here's the deal:
The company I work for maintains a very large database of court case
information for many different counties. We have also developed
software for these counties to organize their data (a 'case management
system'). This case management system was originally developed in Java
(using JDBC with MSAccess/MySQL/SQLServer, JSPs, and running on an
Apache Tomcat server). My job has been to maintain and add
enhancements to this case management system. In the near future (I'm
told), we will be completely re-designing this system and my boss
wants to do it in VB.NET (which is what our other software has been
written in). Why it was written in Java I have no idea, but that's
really beside the point anyway. What I really need to learn soon is
Web Based Application development using databases (via ODBC
connections and otherwise). Any help in that area would be great!

Thanks!

 

[Just_a_fan]

I got two of the books from Wrox publishing having to do with VB.Net
2008 and there was very little overlap and lots of good information.
There was WAY more than I needed at the moment so it left more to delve
into later on. I have made use of lots of it in my little
non-commercial tool. It was my way or learning VB9 and those books have
really helped me learn the new stuff.

They both come with sample code which saves you typing (and mis-typing)
sample code.

No, I don't work for Wrox and these are the first two books I have
gotten from them but they are great. Go to a bookstore or their site
(www.wrox.com I think) to find out about the VB 2008 books.

Someone on this board recommended I check out "remoting" and they have a
great chapter on remoting. Makes it seem easy. I am about to split an
application I have into two pieces and use SingleCall remoting. Sounds
like fun (but then I AM a geek!).

Mike