"Newbie" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi
I am new to VB.net and the .net framework! I have been
coding for the last 7 years in purely COBOL and am now
moving to .net na dvb.net. Just wondering if anyone can
give me some advice on where the best place to start
learning vb is! I am quite confident with the general
overview of .net and how it works. I have read these
teach yourself in 21 day boks on vb but find it
frustrating cause they are not in depth enough! I need
to fully understand OO, databases and exactly how code
and class libraries run etc so wonder if someone could
point me in the right direction either in terms of good
books or just what order to learn things. Everything
overlaps so much!
Hope you can give me some advice!
Many thanks
N
Hello again OHM and Cor! Cheers and hoots....
Okay newbie, I'm probably only a few steps up from ya, but my main focus
is ADO and MSSQL, so that stuff, I can give you some pointers on, and
recommend a book: Visual Basic .NET Complete. It's published by Sybex.
It's not a in-depth, in your face, show everything out, but it is a good
place to start to get those juices flowing. It has a good section on
ADO.NET. Personaly, I'm shifting from VB6 to .NET, so OOP is new to me as
well, along with Multi-threading. And I agree with everything that OHM and
Cor have said, and would just like to add one small thing, have something in
mind, and make that work. My first app in .NET was just a simple MD5 file
hash generator, but, it required to learn something that was unavailable
before. Also, when "playing" with this stuff, don't be afraid to have a few
dozen solutions testing and playing with things. I personally have a Play
directory that has a few hundred solutions.
If you need any help, my first place to start is Dogpile/Google.
Sometimes you'll get lucky, but if you're in a jam, stop on in. I'm not
able to help much in here, but every little bit counts.
Good luck!
Sueffel
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