*duck*cringe* VB book?

[YaRness]

the audience is me: i know how to program, i just need to learn VB and have a reference book.

only thing i've found is o'reilly's vb/vba nutshell book, but that just looks more like a reference.

(feel free to laugh at my pain you bastards)

[jscott]

The MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com) site has tons of great docs -- well great if you must use VB ;) Also the included doc/help system inside Visual Studio is quite complete. Of all the hacked/kludge/junk VB I've banged out, I've never had a decent stack of dead trees. In fact, once you start poking around, you'll find VB is a horribly simple yet unweildy language.

[YaRness]

"horrible" is the feeling i got doing some vba at my last job.

maybe i can talk my boss into footing the bill for an mcsd along the way somewhere as well.

i'll prolly end up reading a few tutorials, order a copy of the nutshell book (and maybe one other random one i find), and just have at it.

[TheLinuxDuck]

My question is, why am I cringing?

I don't get it... although it's nice of you to mention me in the title...

[jscott]

http://www.planet-source-code.com has all kinds of VB examples if you're a learn-by-example sort....

[YaRness]

Originally posted by TheLinuxDuck:
<STRONG>My question is, why am I cringing?

I don't get it... although it's nice of you to mention me in the title...</STRONG>
because by the end of the week i will have surpassed your post count.

buhahahahha!

[YaRness]

Originally posted by jscott:
<STRONG>http://www.planet-source-code.com has all kinds of VB examples if you're a learn-by-example sort....</STRONG>
can't get that site to load, it's just WAY too slow.

maybe it's a router thingie or something.

:(