Your prior experience in programming will benefit you to the extent that you
are comfortable with the fundamental programming constructs - like branching
and looping - that are common to all languages. The big deal with ASP.NET
isn't simply that it's another language. What the big deal is is that you
are dealing with a whole different paradigm than what you are familiar with
on the desktop. I'd suggest that the big priority for you isn't necessarily
the syntax differences between the languages - but rather the whole
distributed computing thing (state management, the role of HTTP, the
limitations of HTML, the use of CSS, the logical and physical separation of
the presentation layer from all of the back-end/server-side operations,
browser considerations, and on and on it goes). Then, with the .NET
framework at your disposal you have a bunch of real OOP constructs that
aren't available in VBA and VB6 (not to take away from VB6 - it just doesn't
compare very well at all to what's available in terms of OOP in .NET). To
think of "learning ASP.net" as a task of simply learning a new syntax is
simply wrong. It's that and much much more.
Advice: jump in and get started. If you enjoy programming you'll love .NET.
-JS
"feetdontfailme" <fe************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I have visual basic 6.0 and have worked with visual studio in classwork
before. How hard would it be to self teach myself ASP.net? I also have
been programming VBA in Access for over 3 years.
