[AccessD] Examples In Best Coding VB.net

[Gustav Brock]

Hi Paul

OK, then you are indeed not a complete novice.

I must say, I find nearly every project more or less "a learning experience". That's the challenge - and the fun.

/gustav

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I have the free edition of community and also used VS Express 2013 to create a VB.net application for my current employer but that was learning as I go and sure it could be written better, as for the C# I have noticed that myself and was thinking of re-developing the Access application into SQL Server Express (to start) and C# so think I may just try that route.

Many thanks for the links and advice, greatly appreciated, especially as I am also looking for another job to hopefully move into more of a developer role as developing currently takes about 5% of my role if that at my current employer, plus also thinking of trying to branch out on my own developing custom software for small businesses to start with.

On 20 October 2016 at 09:12, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi Paul
>
> I would strongly advise to get some basics first because just jumping 
> into it will quickly turn out to be quite confusing as there are so 
> many ways to solve tasks.
>
> A good and free source is MVA, Microsoft Virtual Academy:
>
> https://mva.microsoft.com
>
> An intro-course in VB.NET is here:
>
> https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/visual-
> basic-fundamentals-for-absolute-beginners-16507
>
> That said, you should consider moving to C#. VB.NET may look like 
> Visual Basic but it is very different, so there really isn't much to 
> carry over from VBA, and there is so much more code and advice out 
> there for C# than for VB.NET.
>
> And don't forget the free Visual Studio 2015 Community edition:
>
> https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/
>
> and to sign up to our list:
>
> Development in Visual Studio <dba-vs at databaseadvisors.com>
>
> /gustav
>
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>
> To all,
>
> Being self-taught and not had much time to actually spend with VB.net 
> I now find myself with a little time to try and learn it properly, 
> don;t really want to go through a step-by-step learning process, I 
> seem to be able to pick things up quicker through working examples 
> etc.  So could anyone point me in the right direction for (should I 
> say) best coding examples, doesn't have to be massive just would like 
> to see the best and most effiicient ways to link even a single form to 
> a SQL Server BE, say a name and address form.  I have looked using 
> searches and so many examples out there with different ways, but I 
> trust the people on here to guide me in the right direction, as I 
> believe just a simple form that will show me the best way to select, 
> update, delete and insert records is enough to start me.
>
> The reason I am after this is that I have a Access manufacturing 
> process application dedicated to a certain industry and want to 
> rewrite it in vb.net and SQL as well, I could probably get something 
> up and running but want it to be as slick as it can be as I may look at selling it afterwards.
>
> Thank you so much for any help in advance.
>
> --
> Paul Hartland
> paul.hartland at googlemail.com