Dot Net Books?

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Michael

Hi,

I've decided that it's time I picked up VB.net having programmed in VB6 for
the past 5 years and was wondering if there was a book that was designed for
the VB6 user as opposed to going through all the basics all over again "This
is a variable" etc?

Failing is there a particular book that comes highly recommended?

Cheers,

Michael
 
I've always been partial to "Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005," but that's
just me.

Apress has a book called "Moving to VB.NET" that gives some of the background
and rationale for making the move.
 
Michael,

"Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Version 2003" by Francesco Balena
has a lot of material that helps with moving from VB6 to VB2003.

"Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: The Language" by Francesco Balena
is excellent on VB2005, but has somewhat less emphasis on moving from VB6.

Kerry Moorman
 
Don't know do you need to be at least the mcp to get it

In msdn, there are two free books : "Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET" and "Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
for Developers"
 
In addition to the "Moving to VB.Net" book mentioned
by the other poster, you might want to download this stack
of samples:

101 Samples for Visual Basic 2005
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms789075.aspx

Study the samples that are of relevance to your work.

Also download the source code for Paint .Net if you want
to take a look at a fairly big (100,000+ lines) project and don't
mind it being in C#.

But of greater importance, study the framework itself, using a
tool like Lutz Roeder's .Net Reflector:
http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

Using this tool to study how your favorite structures of the framework
are implemented will teach you far more about .Net development than
most "VB.Net in 21 Days for Professional Dummies" books will.

Regards,

Joergen Bech
 
Michael said:
Hi,

I've decided that it's time I picked up VB.net having programmed in VB6
for the past 5 years and was wondering if there was a book that was
designed for the VB6 user as opposed to going through all the basics all
over again "This is a variable" etc?

Failing is there a particular book that comes highly recommended?

Cheers,

Michael
Click to expand...

Thanks for all the replies. I remember when I went from C++ to VB6 and
having to read through all the basics just in case the odd line was
important. All in all it made it very tiresome.

I've downloaded a couple of the eBooks and started reading through them.
I'll see how much they cover before deciding whether or not to buy the other
books. I generally find that with videos they tend to go either too slowly
or too fast.....

Thanks for the suggestions once again and I'm sure I'll be back pestering
you with simple questions in the coming weeks. :-)

Cheers,

Michael
 
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