What's the Best way to learn VB?

[Rex_Beginner]

I'm attempting to learn VB, SQL, and VS.2005 at the same time. I've been an AS/400 programmer for 28 years and I'm way behind the curve on this technology. I've started my first application but I need help. I can handle SQL pretty easily because I've used it in my job. But now my employer wants me to learn VB and VS. Can someone recommend a good tutorial that I and my fellow programmers can use to learn this and be productive in a relatively short time. We have some projects that will be coming up soon. My employer will be purchasing the tutorial (hopefully one time for all of our team). Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[vbnettja]

If this site were active you'd have an answer by now.
I am in need also of learning of best online tutorial that exists.

 

[Learnveb.net]

Can anyone help me get started. How do i know what .NET FRAMEWORK I have on my computer. I have VISTA installed in my home laptop andWindos XP in my office computer. Please help me how can i get started in VB.NET programming.

 

[picoflop]

Please help me how can i get started in VB.NET programming

First thing would probably be to download either vb.net or c#.net Express edition.
Next step would probably be to determine your actual skills. If you never learned any programming language, you might look for some absolute beginner materials (ebook, pdf whatever). This might be a starting point:
Development for Beginners | Tools, Lessons, Resources on MSDN

 

[hiren_1973]

search at torrents.to. you can find video tutorials of vb.net by appdev, total training & others

 

[Hack]

The best way to learn is to do....

 

[Jemp]

Do you can to learn VB reading the falow tutorial : Visual Basic 2008 Tutorial and practice.

 

[Hb_Kai]

No, no, no, no, no.
Here's the best way to learn it.

It's an online tutorial website. The guy goes through explaining just about everything you need to know to get yourself started. It's easy and how I done it.

Free Beginners Computer Tutorials and Lessons

 

[kyoshiro]

Can anyone help me get started. How do i know what .NET FRAMEWORK I have on my computer. I have VISTA installed in my home laptop andWindos XP in my office computer. Please help me how can i get started in VB.NET programming.

as far as i know, .net framework comes with windows vista and no need to install it. if you want to install the just the framework in your xp computer you have to download the .net framework from microsoft but you can also install it with ms visual studio

 

[Hack]

Downloading VB.NET 2008 Express from Microsoft's site would be a good start.

 

[HeroKing]

start learning only the syntax and the basics (delegates,subroutines , variables ,loops etc)so you can write a code to provide minimum functionality with no syntax errors and exceptions then you can browse the .net framwork class libraries and the examples on each library on msdn ............to know how to properly deal with classes ,functions , subroutines etc.. dnt read books too much

 

[vbinstructor]

The best way to learn visual basic

The best way to learn Visual Basic or any programming language is by seeing it. You cannot learn Programming just by reading the books or tutorials. Following offers live sessions on Visual Basic Programming. You will be able to see the session live from instructor's desktop.

 

[picoflop]

You cannot learn Programming just by reading the books or tutorials.

Is this a fact or an assumption? Having someone (aka teacher) to ask helps, but I guess it's not a requirement

 

[J. Bijvoets]

Learning Visual Basic / Visual Studio

Learning how to program is different than learning how to use Visual Studio to do the job.

If you already know how to translate a set of requirements into a description of the tasks an application has to do, you can make up some test projects, and try to build them in VB.Net or C#.

I started learning the language Visual Basic by just screening the keywords in some eBook, getting a global idea of the possibilities. The next step was to make small applications, gradually enlarging the scope. Combining small solutions into one usefull application is more a matter of being a programmer, not being a Visual Basic Programmer, at least, that is my opinion.

Some small tools you can start to pratice with are:

• Simple form, one text field, one button, one label. Type in text in the textbox, press the button, and show the text in the label.
• Make a form with a textbox and a button. Type in the textbox a number (i.e. 2). Pressing the button shows a Message (MsgBox), telling what number you typed (One, Two, Three, etc.)
• Enlarge the previous tool: check if the number is between 5 and 25. If less, show message "Less", if more show message "More". If between 5 and 25 show "Perfect"
• Enlarge the previous tool: create a textfile and write the typed numbers in it. Check the result with Notepad.
• Enlarge the previous tool: Open the file, and calculate the sum and the average of the typed numbers. Show this in a messagebox.

Search solutions on forums like this, TheCodeProject, or join Developer's Challenges.

 

[Hack]

You cannot learn Programming just by reading the books or tutorials.

I did...and so didn't a whole lot of people of my generation.