[AccessD] Please Advise: Should I Buy "Microsoft Visual Basic.NET Standard 2003 ..."

Joe Hecht jmhla at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 1 20:23:12 CST 2004


Should we make a vb.net list


JOE HECHT
LOS ANGELES CA 
 jmhla at earthlink.net

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Carbonnell
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 6:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Please Advise: Should I Buy "Microsoft Visual
Basic.NET Standard 2003 ..."

On 1 Dec 2004 at 16:42, Lawhon, Alan C Contractor/Mor wrote:

> ... or just try to learn what I can from [VB.Net] books alone?

<snip>

> I would be grateful if some of the folks on this list who have
> actually done some web programming (especially with VB.Net) could
> offer advice and opinions with respect to the "Microsoft Visual Basic
> .NET Standard 2003" [web] development tool.  Basically, I'm wondering
> if the "Standard" edition has enough capability to serve as a useful
> "learning tool" - or is it so "crippled" that I would be better off
> simply reading .NET books?

If you are just interested in just a learning tool at the moment, let 
me suggest a .Net IDE that is free, #develop 
(http://sharpdevelop.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx)

#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C# and VB.NET 
projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is open-source (GPL), and 
you can download both sourcecode and executables from this site. 

It is what I am using right now to play with VB.Net in my spare time. 
I didn't want to drop the $ on VS.NET or even VB.NET if I wasn't sure 
if I'd do any developing in it or not, so this is a great alternate 
for me.

The only downside is that it can be a bit slow to compile, but that 
may be because of the laptop I'm using it on (PIII-500 256 MB RAM)

Just a thought.

-- 
Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at sympatico.ca
I've learned.... 
That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow 
he may have to eat them.


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