I am starting off in the .NET world and wanted to know what a great beginner book would be that would explain how to use asp.net, vb and SQL.
I hear "Learning Visual Basic" is a good series but wanted to see if there were anymore out there.
I am really interested in learning VB .net, but I don't really know where to start. Could anyone recommend a good book or website to start learning.
View 15 RepliesI am a EE graduate from about a year and a half ago working in the semiconductor industry as a hardware/test engineer. I wan't to learn VB to do lab level data test and acquisition. I am learning this in my free time at work and home, and I would be using VB to talk with different electronic equipment through GBIP to source, measure, and record data. Anyone have any good ideas of a good book for such applications?? I know there are a ton of books and courses out there, but 99.9% of that information is not going to be needed for my industry application. I also took a few C classes in college, and I have some experience with labview so I am not a total noob to programming. So if anyone has a good book, or refferences that would be really appreciated.Also what version of VB would you recomend me learning?
View 4 RepliesCan anyone recommend a good VB book that will teach functions, file IO, arrays, recursion etc. A lot of the ones I have looked at are very basic I started Sam teach yourself VB 2010 in 24hrs but a lot of it didn't relate to what we do in college.
View 2 RepliesIn my applications I use objects and classes, but when reading SO topics, I have the idea I don't use real OOP principles. For example, I never use inheritance or interfaces. Therefore, I am trying to learn proper OOP (in VB.NET), but I find some concepts quite hard to understand (even after reading a lot about the subjects on SO).So I'm trying to find a book or resource with good practical real-world examples. For instance, I kind of understand examples like using an interface for both Dog and Cat classes when using a EatFood method, but I find it hard to relate it to real-world cases.Ideally these books or resources should cover explanations about:
- when and why to use inheritance or interfaces or abstract classes
- when and why to use private, public, protected, virtual etc.
- best practices in dependency injection /inversion of control
- when to use aspect oriented programming
- using of constructors
- solid principles
- singletons
- encapsulation
Perhaps it's a mix of all kinds of concepts, but I think these are all related to OOP, please correct me if I'm wrong.I would prefer a book/resource with VB.NET examples, but this might be difficult?
I'm still a noobie whe it comes to VB.NET but I am going to be specifically orking/interacting with websites such as passing variables to textboxes, clicking on buttons, etc.
View 1 RepliesCan anyone point me in the right direction for a good book or web site for Word and Excel Programming for VB. I'm not talking about VBA, I need to "work" with them from within my program not from within word or excel. I need to upgrade programs that were looking at Office 2000 and we're going to 07 or 10 not sure yet but figured I could at least get a bit of a jump on things.
View 2 RepliesI begain in 1971 learning TRS-80 Model III Basic language...later taught myself Lotus 1-2-3 and then DBase. Later, graduated to Visual Basic Stopped at VB 6.0. Now I need to move up to VB 2010...I have been programming for our company for sometime and use VB 6.0 as a front end for numerous Access DB applications.Can you recommend a good book (or books) out there that can help me with using VB 2010 as a frontend for Access?..just need the basics to be able to make connections, query the tables, return the data, update data, etc.
View 6 RepliesI'm new to VB but completly new. I've dabbled with it a bit before but mostly from copying and pasting code from online. Is there a good book that I can purchase that will show me the ropes of the basics?
View 5 RepliesI'm looking for an advanced level VB.NET book which covers LINQ and Lambda Expressions.Generally I read C# .NET books due to lack of good VB.NET books when it comes to generic .NET Framework related subjects. However Lambda and LINQ is quite different in C# and VB.NET I'm looking for an advanced level VB.NET book on this subjec
View 1 Replieshow to load data (Book) to text box when user just enter the book code?how to load data (student) to text box when user just enter the student id?how to write the code when user click the save button , the book quantity(Book) will reduce 1 and the all the data in textbox will save in database(Issue)the interface is like
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the database is show at
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the code is
Public Class frmIssue
Dim dt As New DataTable()
Dim rowIndex As Integer = 0
Dim rowIndex1 As Integer = 0
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May I expose my "small" problem?Here, i'm following a course in my University, called Introduction to Programming, there are only beginners in our class. i'm also a newbie, to say so.And some stupid students were not paying attention so he gave us a crazy assignment for Friday 30th.This is what his assignment consists in. I have created a PDF file from his requirements and some samples of Code.[url]
View 6 RepliesAlright I already set up the phonebook form. I just need to input the codes for buttons Add, Delete, & Find.
Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Dim aname() As String
Dim room() As String
Dim Phone() As String
Dim index As Integer
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I need VB.NET tutorials and simple VB.NET examples. I am trying to implement click events like[code]...
View 3 RepliesI was wondering for good top 5 websites to look for web services that you guys use. Also, anyone know a goood article on creating your own SOAP service and maybe REST service if you provide a good article on it.Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. "Sherlock holmes" "speak softly and carry a big stick"
View 3 RepliesWhat I want to do is to add a new student loan and the program checks the book title if loan exists, does not allow the same loan to be created. There is no limit on the number of loan placed by the student. How do I write the code as above in VB.NET Note: 1 book Per Loan number Add Loan Form
View 1 RepliesThis is a VB.Net newbie question. I am working through the Microsoft Press "Build a Program Now!" book using VB 2005. I am in Chapter 6 where you build a simple browser. But, my problem is with Tool Strip Containers. I am running Visual Studio 2005.
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I'm writing a program to set the sale prices in an sql database based on criteria entered by the user. The application that came with the database crashes when you try to update over 1,000 sale prices at once. The other users also loose connection to the database due to a timeout error...
How can I make my new sale program pause after a certain number of updates as to not bog down the SQL server
I'm looking for a book that is pretty much A-Z for LINQ programming from Visual Basic. I am particularly interested in LINQ to SQL. I've found "Programming Microsoft LINQ in Microsoft .NET Framework 4" and while its description sounds interesting, there is no discussion on the book at all . Do any of you have any experience with this book? If so, what do you think of it?
View 3 RepliesI have been working on a project for some time now and I am stuck. I am trying to sense when a navigation software speaks so i can mute the volume of everything else on the computer.
my problem is that i cant properly sense the audio of the software. i am using windows 7 and vb.net. i have done a good amount of research, but i have not come up with an answer.
i am almost positive that i need to intercept the win32api call of the software to trigger the mute that i will use. i dont know how to do this, all the information i can find that is even close to this subject is for 98, nt and 2k.
does anyone know of any books (or websites) that contain information on this subject?
I just wonder that somone can give me propositions for some good books to learn VB.net / VB2008.. I know the basics.. So I think of not a book like for dummies.. Just something more a step forward for new things to learn.
View 5 RepliesI was wondering what books/items you guys would recommend to read in regards to VB programming and/or programming in general.
View 9 Repliesi am searching a good book to learn ADO.NET 4.0,book should be excellent technical overview with practical examples,I want to learn ADO.NET Where should I start?
View 1 RepliesWhat I'm Not looking for:Now, just to be clear, i'm not looking for VB6 to C#.Net content, as i know there are a few of those out there.Also, I know about that "syntaxconversion table" website, where it compares VB.Net to C# language features in a side by side table. I am not interested in this either, already know about it.I'm also not looking for a converter, which converts C# code to VB.Net and visa versa, i know there are a few websites which do this and already have the addresses.Finally, I'm not looking for a C# book or resource that caters to current programmers, but specifically to VB.Net programmers!
What I Am looking for:To learn C# (VS2008 or preferably VS2010 version) given that i already know VB.Net 10.0 (VS2010)... as there are many things related to .NET that i won't have to learn again if i can find something that will leap me from vb.net to c#, many bits of the CLR, how .NET works etc... since the languages are the same in what they do, and what they use to do them, i don't want to have to re-learn all this again. The only difference is really the syntax, but also how the C# language differs in dealing with certain things, what default expectations/behaviours are in various scenarios etc...
The set of differences and similarities between C# and VB.Net are so unique that neither of these languages likely could share this unique set/combination of differences and similarities with any other language. So my point is, it really needs to be C# for VB Developers oriented, otherwise it'll almost cetainly be inappropriate or a re-hashing!
The problem is in the line that contains address.save(filename) the part address.save is underlined. When I backspace over the save, it gives me the options of what can go there and save isnt one of them. I am coping this out of a book.[code]...
View 1 RepliesIs it possible to run vb dot net project on Apple (Mac) Book.
View 1 RepliesI have the vb books of 2005. Should I buy some new books ? Should I start with vb latest versions?
I'm starting as a self-learner and a little bid advanced learner. Few months later my university will start it.
Is there a book for learning the microsoft windows form chart control?
View 3 RepliesI need to develop an application that can search through a book and list out all the pages and lines that contain a given keyword. For books that are split up in some other way, such as a bible which is split up by chapter and verse; they would be able to search for all verses that contain a certain keyword. Or alternatively, search within certain chapters and verses for a keyword. What format should I store the book into? Should it be stored into a SQL database? What format would be easiest for searching as opposed to easiest for storage?
View 7 RepliesSuppose a teacher has five students who have taken four tests. The teacher uses the following grading scale to assign a letter grade to a student, based on the average of his or her four test scores.
Test Score Letter Grade
90-100 A
80-89 B
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