VB book for beginner

[Andy]

Hi

I need a recomandation for a good VB.net for someonenew to VB programming.
I've for the last few weeks been using "Beginning Visual Basic 2005" by
Thearon Willis and Bryan Newsome
(http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764574019.html) but I
feel it doesn't give a good "over all picture" for each chapter. Any one
with some other good books they can recomend?

/Andy

 

[RobinS]

I really liked Tim Patrick's Start-to-Finish VB2005. You end up building
a whole application, which is pretty neat. Plus, he covers a *lot* of
ground, and talks about stuff not covered in most of the beginner books.

IF you want something just on the language, check out Francesco
Balena's "VB2005: The Language" -- I thought it was good. No forms
or data, though. Great for a reference, although I read it from
cover to cover. Neat tips for performance and stuff like that.

For Data Access, I read Dave Sceppa's "ADO.Net The Core Reference",
which I thought was really helpful in understanding everything from
strongly typed datasets to wiring up your own code.

And for advanced data binding, I read Brian Noyes' Data Binding book,
although it's in C#. (The downloads are available in VB.)

Hope that helps.
Robin S.

 

[Hal Rosser]

This one is good:
http://www.murach.com/books/vb05/index.htm
Murach takes you "knowing nuttin' to understanding enough to do some work.