Steve Erbach
erbachs at gmail.com
Mon May 1 11:45:05 CDT 2006
Kath, Just saw this thread today... As far as web sites, I'd suggest a visit to http://www.sqlservercentral.com . Free registration to get access to everything, a sprightly daily e-mail newsletter, e-books for cheap, and lots and lots of articles on SQL Server. As far as books go, you might want to look into Safari Bookshelf On-line ( http://www.safaribooksonline.com/ ). For $15 a month you get up to 10 books on your "bookshelf". You must keep a book for at least 30 days, at which time you may remove it from your shelf and replace it with another...or you can hang onto a book forever, taking up a "slot" on your bookshelf. About three dozen publishers have their books in Safari format, which is searchable across ALL books in the Safari library. Some publishers are missing from the "stable" of publishers available, but there are plenty. The two .NET Framework books Shamil mentioned are available on Safari, while the ASP.NET Tips, Tutorials and the Mastering Visual Basic 2005 are not. I can recommend Scott Mitchell as an author (the book recommended by Eric Barro is by Mitchell). Mitchell's web site is the famous 4 Guys from Rolla: http://www.4guysfromrolla.com . Regards, Steve Erbach http://TheTownCrank.blogspot.com On 4/12/06, Kath Pelletti <kp at sdsonline.net> wrote: > (Cross posted to SQl Server and AccessD normal list) > > I have been learning SQL Server 2005 and vb.net this year......I have found Mike Gunderloy's book "Mastering SQL Server 2005" an absolute god send. I would highly recommend this one to anyone going through this learning curve.... > > But the book I bought for learning vb.net is not so good - "Visual Basic 2005 - Programmer's reference' by Rod Stephens. It's not too bad - very much like reading the MS help screens - but I am looking for a book which will step me through it - a la Mike's style. Any recommendations? > > (I know O'Reilly's are good but I am told by my colleague here that that it is more of a reference book.) > > (While I am posting - it's very quiet on our SQL list for now - is there another list anyone has been using which they would recommend? > > ______________________________________ > Kath Pelletti