[thechat] VB Book Recommendations Needed

Jon Haworth jhaworth at witanjardine.co.uk
Wed Jul 31 02:59:00 CDT 2002


Hi Syed,

> I am trying to learn MS Visual Basic without the help
> any teacher and want some recommendations of good
> user-friendly VB books from experts among you.

Are you using VB6 or VB.Net? There's a substantial difference between the
two, and a book for one may not be of much use for the other.

A great book for beginners in VB6 is "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Visual
Basic 6" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/078971812X/evoltorg)

If you're developing against SQL Server this one's supposed to be very good
(although I haven't read it):
"Beginning SQL Server 2000 for Visual Basic Developers"
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861004672/evoltorg)

I don't know of any VB.Net books, but I imagine there's a Complete Idiot's
Guide to Visual Basic.Net, which hopefully would contain the same concepts
as the VB6 version but explain them in a .Net sort of way.

Incidentally, and IMHO, if you're learning VB.Net you might as well not
bother: consider learning C# instead.


Cheers
Jon









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