VBA or VB.Net? Book recommendations??

[hyyfte]

I took a BASIC course back in high school and FORTRAN in early college
Looking to get into programming again and want to start with Visua
BASIC. What are the advantages of VB.Net compared to VBA? Which woul
be better to learn?

Also any recommendations on teach yourself books would be greatl
appreciated. I've seen such mixed reviews on these books that I'
having a difficult time deciding.

If anyone knows of any online tutorials to learn Visual Basic, tha
would be helpful (and cheaper) too

 

[Guest]

hi,
go with vba. it's going to be around for some time. and
there is a lot already written in vba. vb.net is new and
trying to carve out a nitch for itself. it will. but
right now i know of no plans by microsoft to change
office over to vb.net. the .net framework was developed
so that it would combine all of the softfwares.
for example you might design a form with vba then run
code in c++ or any other language that is supported. .net
is pretty powerful so its here to stay. so is vba.
as for books and tutorials i might suggest:
http://class.et.byu.edu/ce270/vbaexcel_primer/intro.htm
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?
q=group:*excel*
http://www.exceltip.com/excel_links.html
http://www.exceltip.com/tutorial/garrison/
http://www.lebans.com/
http://www.rondebruin.nl/
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/
http://www.developersdex.com