Learning VB.NET

[GLuce]

I'm an experienced ColdFusion developer hoping to cross over to ASP.NET. I've heard VB.NET was the way to start. I bought VB.NET standard and am installing it right now. I have the MS Visual Basic.NET in action book. Anyone have any online tutorials or books to recomend to the rank novice?

 

I'm sure you'll be hearing more from me on these forums.

[Robby]

Some good online stuff... http://www.xtremedotnettalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69808

[mutant]

I didnt see this page menitoned in that thread, check out this page. They have a lot of source code for ASP.NET:

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/

[Mick Dugan]

GLuce

 

I�ve been learning on my own for about six months now. I bought 5 different �for beginners� type books and was disappointed in all of them. They all had the same flaw. Trying to cover way too much material to the point of shortchanging the proper amount of explanation of just about every aspect of the language. Also, without exception, they would give a single example for you to follow along with and then move on to the next topic. No reinforcement of what you�ve learned! I compare it to giving grade school kids a single example of long division on Monday, and expecting them to absorb algebra on Tuesday, followed by trig on Wednesday.

 

Then I found the holy grail of VB learning books.

 

Get yourself a copy of �An introduction to learning Visual Basic. NET� by David I. Schneider. I bought mine from Amazon, about $50. It was written to be a college textbook and is chock full of sample problems to reinforce what you�ve learned. How �chock full?� there are 11 chapters and each one has about 150 problems for the user to tackle. Further, half of them (the odd numbered ones) have their solution printed in the back of the book if case you get stuck. If you get this book, read it from start to end (actually, you can skip the first two chapters, they don�t focus on the language per se.) and do all of the problems, I GUARANTEE you�ll be writing meaningful VB programs when you�re through!

 

Regards,

 

Mick Dugan