Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Thu Jul 24 07:17:34 CDT 2008
Hi Paul Welcome to the club! You can look up the thread "Old Dog - New Tricks" from January where Shamil and others posted some excellent links - including this: http://www.asp.net/learn/data-access/ This is an absolute must which will teach you about DataTables and TableAdapters and Data Access Layers (and much more) and lift you off all the SqlClient and SqlCommand stuff found everywhere which is waste of time to deal with except for very special purposes. Also, I enjoyed some of the free videos from this site: http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/ As for which version, go with the 2008 versions: http://www.microsoft.com/Express/ For web development it is the Visual Web Developer. To confuse you a little, I can tell that I used the opportunity (when moving from Access - and Access Basic and later VBA - to Visual Studio) to switch to C# following the advice from several fellow list members. It has been a pleasure and I don't regret that. Happy coding! /gustav >>> paul.hartland at googlemail.com 24-07-2008 10:56 >>> To all, I want to start learning Visual Basic .Net, I did download VB 2005 Express, C++ 2005 Express, C# 2005 Express & SQL Server 2005 Express, but unfortunately didn't actually get around to playing with them. I have noticed that 2008 Express editions are now available, would it be worth using these instead of the 2005 Express editions ? Also, I would class myself as an intermediate to advanced VB6 developer, does anyone have any good suggestions on books, free web tutuorials that would get me started, I don't mind going right back to the beginning if I have to to learn this, as I am falling behind a long way. Oops another thought, does anyone know if there is anything like an ASP.Net Express edition or similar (or am I being thick lol) Thanks in advance for any help on this.... -- Paul Hartland paul.hartland at googlemail.com