starting from 0

[sean sobey]

Hi everyone! I am trying to teach myself VB and am starting from 0. Where
can start off with online tutorials? I already know SQL scripting and I
want to use VB with SQL.

Thank so much for your help.
sean

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Sean,

There are a more dialects from VB

VBA Visual Basic for Applications (For office applications)
VBS Visual Basic Stripting (Very much used on classic ASP)
VB.Net Visual Basic for DotNet
VB classic (current version 6) Visual Basic for Win32

Maybe even more, where I don't call the BASIC versions for Dos..

This newsgroup does VBNet

A simple start page I prefer for VBNet is

http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/

I hope this helps?

Cor

 

[sean sobey]

Thanks for clarifying this. But, if you know one flavor of VB, wouldn't the
others be pretty similar?
Thanks,
Sean

 

[Dallas]

Sean,

The answer is yes and no. I tell my students that I you don't know any of
them very well, they look and act the same. If you know one of them, the
others are different.

Dallas

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I am trying to teach myself VB and am starting from 0. Where
can start off with online tutorials? I already know SQL scripting and I
want to use VB with SQL.

If you don't have any experience with VB.NET yet, I suggest to get familiar
with the language before writing database applications with it.

For a quick look at Visual Basic, I currently would install the Express beta
and play around with it:

<URL:http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vbasic/>

Alternatively, you can order the trial version of VS.NET:

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/trial/>

General information about VB can be found here:

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/>

For beginners' tasks, VB at the Movies may be helpful:

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies/>

The Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit contains a test version of VS.NET,
some free components and a lot of training material:

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/>

Quickstarts on various topics of the .NET Framework can be found here:

<URL:http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/>

For VB6 programmers, there are separate documents about the switch to
VB.NET:

VB.NET for VB Veterans
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...tiontovisualbasic70forvisualbasicveterans.asp>