Good Resource Material? 2

[aharris2693]

I am an intern trying to teach myself VB.net based on some prior knowledge of ASP and VB6. I am doing some work for Facilities here, so there is no one in my department that knows anything about VB. I bought a book by MS, but it is extremely simple and really only goes into coding objects that are created in design mode. While this forum is very helpful, I think that I have too many questions for this type of setup. Does anyone know a good book or site for learning the best ways to connect and manipulate DBs through VB.net? Should I look into buying a more complex VB book, or perhaps an ADO.net book? Thanks a lot in advance for any suggestions.

 

[kateryn]

I found most helpful the following books (they are listed in the order of their helpfulness to me):

Visual Basic .net complete - Sybex ISBN: 0-7821-2887-4 only $20

Beginning Visual Basic .net Databases - Wrox (out of print - but still on some bookstore shelves) ISBN: 1-861005-55-5 $35

Coding Techniques for MS Visual Basic .net - Microsoft ISBN: 0-7356-1254-4 (expensive)

Programming MS Visual Basic .net - Microsoft ISBN: 0-7356-1375-3 (expensive)

Hope these help

 

[younguser]

download samples, run it, find answer from books and forum, you'll learn a lot. Starting data entry case, my .NET experience from there:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...b9-5aeb-4f46-9bf0-2b3e3664be77&DisplayLang=en

 

[aharris2693]

Thanks to both of you. Young user, I am kind of stuck having to buy books because I only and intern am only here about thirty hours a week, so most of my learing I have to do at home where I only have VB 6. Thanks to both of you again though and I hope that eventually I will be able to use the samples offered because that is usually the best way to learn by far.
-Anthony

 

[DirectDrive]

Anthony,
If you are a student, and you want a version fro home, you can get the academic version of .NET for about $100. Check e-bay or search google for it.

 

[chrissie1]

actually you dont need to buy anything there are vb.net compilers out there for free try the one at

http://www.windowsforms.com

and if you download the .net framework sdk the vbc compiler is included just type the code in notepad and compile it with the vbc.exe

Christiaan Baes
Belgium
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