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[GrigoreDolghin]

Hello, everyone

Guys, I have a dillema:

I am a seasoned VisualFoxPro programmer. I had the chance to work in a true OOP programming language since 4 years ago, developing mostly client/server apps.

Now, it's time to move on. I have my own copy of Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect. As you know, Visual FoxPro doesn't exist in .NET Studio anymore (as it was in VStudio 6), mostly because of CLR (foxpro does not support CLR).

Now: I have to choose one language from .NET. Personally, I tend to use Visual Basic. The problem is I have no idea what Visual Basic is. That is not a problem, because I am a quick learner. But the docs are so clumsy... Where to start? What to do? How do I know if what I do or what I read is good for a beginner? Can anyone point me to a good start point?

Please, help me to have a good start. Thank you. Grigore Dolghin
Class Software
Bucharest, Romania

 

[krisbrixon]

To answer the question of "How do I know if what I read is good for a beginner?" If you can understand it then it is not too advanced. If you are a seasoned programmer then I would skip the "beginner" stuff and goto "intermediate" since most beginner stuff will assume you do not know anything about programming.

The following are the resources I used the most to learn about VB.NET

Book:
Mastering Visual Basic .NET By Evangelos Petroutsos ISBN:0-7821-2877-7

Websites:

http://www.learnvisualstudio.net

http://abstractvb.com/code.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com

http://www.freevbcode.com/listcode.asp?Category=16

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;pwebcst

http://www.codehound.com/vb/

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/vbnet/vbTutorials.asp

I have also downloaded a lot of sample chapters from .NET books. These are sometimes hard to find, but use a search engine like google to limit the search to *.pdf files.

I hope some of this helps.

Kris

 

[GrigoreDolghin]

Thank you so much... Grigore Dolghin
Class Software
Bucharest, Romania