Sources of help for VB

[Jon S. Berndt]

Greetings:

I've got a copy of VB.Net Standard 2003. I'd like to give it a shot, but
it's a bit overwhelming.

So, I'm looking for the best place to seek help for an occasional question,
examples, and tutorials. This shouldn't be too hard. I've been an engineer
for 20 years, programmed in C for as long, C++ for 10 years, Borland
C++Builder since that product was at v1.0. I really like the C++Builder IDE,
so the VB IDE is familiar to me and very nice to use.

With that said, I am having problems with ridiculously simple tasks, like
declaring a variable to use in a function. Surprisingly, I didn't find the
tutorials to be instructive in this regard.

Anyhow, please accept my apologies if this isn't the right forum, but I am
used to Usenet and figured that if this isn't the right place to seek the
kind of assistance I'm looking for, someone here will by all too happy to
tell me where to go. ;-)

Best regards,

Jon Berndt
Development Coordinator
JSBSim Project

https://www.jsbsim.org

[Ralph]

Re: Sources of help for VB


"Jon S. Berndt" <jsb@hal-pc.org> wrote in message
news:44790553$0 $595$a726171b@n ews.hal-pc.org...[color=blue]
> Greetings:
>
> I've got a copy of VB.Net Standard 2003. I'd like to give it a shot, but
> it's a bit overwhelming.
>
> So, I'm looking for the best place to seek help for an occasional[/color]
question,[color=blue]
> examples, and tutorials. This shouldn't be too hard. I've been an engineer
> for 20 years, programmed in C for as long, C++ for 10 years, Borland
> C++Builder since that product was at v1.0. I really like the C++Builder[/color]
IDE,[color=blue]
> so the VB IDE is familiar to me and very nice to use.
>
> With that said, I am having problems with ridiculously simple tasks, like
> declaring a variable to use in a function. Surprisingly, I didn't find the
> tutorials to be instructive in this regard.
>
> Anyhow, please accept my apologies if this isn't the right forum, but I am
> used to Usenet and figured that if this isn't the right place to seek the
> kind of assistance I'm looking for, someone here will by all too happy to
> tell me where to go. ;-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jon Berndt
> Development Coordinator
> JSBSim Project
> www.jsbsim.org
>[/color]

No matter how much experience nothing beats a good book and plodding through
the examples. Now that VB2005 is out most of the 2003 books are pretty
cheap.

Being essentially a C/C++ programmer myself I can warn you that there is
just enough "kind a like - but wrongs" in dotNet to throw you off on a wrong
track very early on if you go at it piece meal. The same is true for a
classic VBer as well. That goes for the IDE, Language, and the Framework. It
looks like a lot of other stuff, but it subtly ain't. <g>

For Newsgroups - go to microsoft.publi c.dotnet.~

Based on your experience, out of curiosity I have to ask, why do you want to
bother with VB# 2003, why not go the C# or C++/CLI (VB2005) route?

-ralph

[J French]

Re: Sources of help for VB

On Sat, 27 May 2006 21:04:07 -0500, "Jon S. Berndt" <jsb@hal-pc.org>
wrote:
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>Greetings:
>
>I've got a copy of VB.Net Standard 2003. I'd like to give it a shot, but
>it's a bit overwhelming.[/color]

Almost everybody in this newsgroup is using VB6 or lower.

While you may get a stray answer to VB.NET (including VB2003
and VB2005 which has dropped .NET from its name) questions here,
you should ask them in newsgroups devoted exclusively to
..NET programming.

You risk getting confusing and/or misleading replies.

Look for newsgroups with either the word "dotnet" or "vsnet" in
their name.

For the microsoft news server, try these newsgroups...

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...dotnet.general
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...t.languages.vb
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....vsnet.general
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...studio.general
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....vstudio.setup
news://msnews.microsoft.public.dotne...ges.vb.upgrade
news://msnews.microsoft.public.dotne...es.vb.controls
news://msnews.microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb.data

There are some others, but these should get you started.

[Jon S. Berndt]

Re: Sources of help for VB

"Ralph" <nt_consulting6 4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
[color=blue]
> No matter how much experience nothing beats a good book and plodding
> through
> the examples. Now that VB2005 is out most of the 2003 books are pretty
> cheap.
>
> Being essentially a C/C++ programmer myself I can warn you that there is
> just enough "kind a like - but wrongs" in dotNet to throw you off on a
> wrong
> track very early on if you go at it piece meal. The same is true for a
> classic VBer as well. That goes for the IDE, Language, and the Framework.
> It
> looks like a lot of other stuff, but it subtly ain't. <g>
>
> For Newsgroups - go to microsoft.publi c.dotnet.~
>
> Based on your experience, out of curiosity I have to ask, why do you want
> to
> bother with VB# 2003, why not go the C# or C++/CLI (VB2005) route?
>
> -ralph[/color]

I went with VB basically because I had it. However, I have downloaded the
MSVC++ personal (or basic, or whatever) edition from MS and I may try that
instead.

Thanks for all the answers. It helped immensely.

Jon