I would definitely start with the 2005 version of Visual Studio.
VB's not going anywhere. VB would probably be easier for you, and then you
can move into C# as you need to. That's what I did. C# was a lot easier to
learn because I had already learned the .Net Framework with VB which I was
more familiar with.
For VB, check out Tim Patrick's Start-to-Finish VB2005. It has a *lot* of
information in it. My only problem with it was his code wasn't really
standard, but it *did* work great, and his UI was fabulous. It has a wide
variety of topics that aren't covered in many books, like the Reporting
Services. It's also very readable. And if you do the exercises, you end up
building an entire huge application.
If you need help with OOP and want to know how to split your application
into three parts (presentation layer, business layer, and data layer),
check out Deborah Kurata's "Doing Objects in VB2005". You end up building
an application in this book as well, in a more standard way. It's very
pragmatic and understandable. It also has a bunch of tips for stuff like
code snippets and saving user settings and how to access SQLServer from
Visual Studio.
For C#, I liked Andrew Troelsen's "Pro C# with .Net 3.0", but it's not for
the faint of heart. It assumes you know or are familiar with C or C++. I
think he also wrote a VB version (or edited it for someone else), but I
haven't checked that one out.
Good luck.
Robin S.
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"Peter" <Pe***@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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Hi Tom and others,
I only have programming experience in Visual FoxPro and T-SQL in SQL
Server
2000/2005. I have access to VS 2005 Team Edition for Software Developer.
I
need to work on a project using XML Web Service and .Net 2.0 and above.
The
language will probably be VB.net and some c#. Need suggestions on
websites,
articles, books, and webcasts for my experience. I want to make sure
that
I'm not learning something which is being pharsed out.
"Tom Serface" wrote:
>I'd start with VS 2005. You can do a lot of .NET stuff with the Express
version you can download. There are a ton of .NET examples on
www.codeproject.com.
Tom
"Peter" <Pe***@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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>I want to learn .net 2.0 and above. I have no knowledge in .net at
all.
There are Visual Studio 2005 Virtual Labs and Visual Studio .NET 2003
Virtual
Labs in MSDN. My understanding is that Visual Studio .NET 2003 is for
.net
1.0. However, it seems to me that the VS .net 2003 labs may be better
than
VS 2005 labs for beginners like me. Should I start from VS .net 2003
labs
or
go directly to VS 2005 labs?