Recommendations - VB .Net courses/seminars

[Guest]

Hello -

I am looking for recommendations for courses/seminars regarding VB .Net and
Visual Studio .Net, preferrably in the Northeast. Has anyone attended
something they have been particularly impressed with?

Also, any suggestions for good books, CDs, will be appreciated!

 

[Jeff Allan]

I have found these books to be good resources:

Microsoft Press Step-By-Step books for .NET (C#, VB, ASP)
Visual Basic 2005 Black Book

Training by New Horizons in the Northeast has been very productive for me.

 

[Tim Patrick]

I've been very impressed with the new book _Start-to-Finish Visual Basic
2005_, although the author's name slips my mind.

 

[rowe_newsgroups]

Wasn't the author Francesco Balena?



Just Kidding!,

Seth Rowe

 

[Tim Patrick]

Ahhh! I've been mortally (or is it morally) wounded! :0

 

[RobinS]

What is your level of expertise? Have you done VB in the past? Or it
completely
new? Have you done any VB.Net at all?

I heard Tim Patrick has out a new book called "Start-to-Finish Visual Basic
2005"
that's supposed to be pretty good.

The VB2005 step-by-step book from Microsoft is really, really basic.

For more thorough info, try Francesco Balena's VB2005 : The Language book.
I don't really think it's for a beginner-beginner, but would be a good
second
book. It has no forms or data, just The Language.

Robin S.

 

[RobinS]

I don't know about that. You could do worse than
being compared to or mistaken for Francesco Balena.

Robin S.
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[rowe_newsgroups]

Sorry, he's the author of the only .Net book I have on my desk at work.
Besides, I could have said the book was by "The Master Programmer"
(although why would he write a book about a "dead" language?) Sorry - I
can't resist a good inside joke

Thanks,

Seth Rowe

 

[aaron.kempf]

why VB? run away; learn PHP... microsoft told us VB programmers to eat
shit so they can screw themselves

-Aaron

 

[RobinS]

That's funny, I didn't see that in any of the press releases.
I saw a lot of stuff about powerful new capabilities, and
I have to admit the new data binding stuff is awesome, and
I'm looking forward to LINQ, but I don't remember anything
about dining recommendations.

One wonders why one who dislikes MS and VB.Net so much would
be reading and/or posting in a VB.Net newsgroup.

Robin S.
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[aaron.kempf]

**** you

you know that they all bend us over backwards

they're scaring us that 'vb6 programs wont run in vista' when in fact
they do.
that kindof wishy-washy uncertainity?

it's just a joke

giving us a debugger without edit and continue?
absolutely unacceptable.

it's just bullshit

-Aaron

 

[RobinS]

Comments below.

**** you

No thanks. I try not to do that with angry bitter men.

you know that they all bend us over backwards

I disagree.

they're scaring us that 'vb6 programs wont run in vista' when in fact
they do.
that kindof wishy-washy uncertainity?

Haven't seen any of that. Everything I saw said they
made significant effort to make sure VS6 and VB6 would
still work in Windows Vista.

it's just a joke

giving us a debugger without edit and continue?
absolutely unacceptable.

*My* debugger has edit and continue.

it's just bullshit

-Aaron

Have a nice day.
Robin S.
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[aaron.kempf]

Im not angry bitter

I SPEAK THE ****ING TRUTH BITCH

life is not flowers; MS killed the most popular language EVER for no
****ing reason.. just because they're scared of this little wimpy
company named Sun.

I just wish that MS could buy Sun and shut down this whole Java crap
and set the record straight and really really focus on VB.

I would rather flip burgers than ever use any programming language
called C or C++ or C# or Java.

-Aaron

 

[Master Programmer]

MESSAGE TO ALL NEW PROGRAMMERS CONSIDERING MS TOOLS.....

If you are new too programming and considering Visual Basic (including
any new versions - 2005 etc) - take this advice.... Reconsider
learning it at all !

Do yourself a favour and learn a different language. Microsoft
constantly change languages and discontinue them. Ask anyone whom knew
Visual Basic 6.0 and they will tell you how MS has destroyed the
language. Learning VB is a bad idea because its very likely that VB
will soon be dropped.

I agree with Aaron, PHP is a much better choice.

The Grand Master

 

[aaron.kempf]

your debugger has edit and continue?

are you referring to VB6?

the edit and continue in VB2005 isn't effective; it's slow; it doesn't
work in half situations

-Aaron