from VB .Net to VB 2005 3

[BlueWin]

Few days ago I have purchased Visual Basic .Net from a shop nearby.
The manual that was with it was not of much use, so I started hunting for a good book.
Unfortunately, I live in a country where English is a foreign language, so the only book I could buy was Visual Basic 2005 which I did not even know it existed.

Now, what shall I do to upgrade VB .Net I have to VB 2005?
I could not find a clear guide from Microsoft.
Is there a download to upgrade, or shall I have to buy an upgrade?

Thank you in advance.



BlueWin
Technical User

 

[RiverGuy]

VB 2005 is in beta and not released yet. There are some significant changes in it versus VB 2003. I would look for a VB 2003 book.

 

[BlueWin]

Thank you for your answer.
I hate buying books without paging through them first.
As I said, I live in a non English country and books in English are not easy to find.
But anyway, if there is VB 2005 in the near future, I am willing to prepare for it.
I saw in the VB 2005 book I purchased already the three new things in VB 2005, namely Generics, My Object and New Operators. This sounds interesting.
I just wanted to know if the upgrade from VB .NET to VB 2005 was just a free download, please.

BlueWin
Technical User

 

[RiverGuy]

I highly doubt it will be a free download. Since the releases will be I believe over 2 years apart, I doubt they will have a separate, cheaper upgrade from 2003 than from 2002 or Visual Studio 6.

However, I had read that the standard or basic editions or whatever they are going to be called for 2005 will be around US $50, but I'm not sure.

You can download the Visual Basic 2005 Express version for free however--although in the end, it probably won't be supported by MS since its like a beta. You can get it at MSDN.Microsoft.com.

 

[chiph]

You should be able to order from Amazon.com (the US site). You'll have to pay international shipping, and perhaps some customs duties, but it ought to be possible. A lot of the books they offer have a chapter or table-of-contents that are viewable before you buy (very nice!)

If you live in a country with a high reported credit-card fraud rate (Romania comes to mind), you might need to make alternative payment arrangements.

Chip H.


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[BlueWin]

Thank you both for your advices.
I'll take all in consideration.

Cheers



BlueWin
Technical User

 

[Thrakazog]

BlueWin,

You should look into

http://safari.oreilly.com/.

They let you browse books and read them online for a monthly charge. I think it's around $15 a month. Cheaper than most single books anyway. They have tons of stuff on .Net.

 

[BlueWin]

Thrakazog
That's right! I saw that in one of their books while I was in the bookshop, but then forgot it.

Many thanks for this reminder. It's probably the best I could have.


BlueWin
Technical User