What would you recommend as the "best" VB.NET and C# books for learning Design Patterns?eferably books that actually give examples of when to use the patterns. I need torecommend some books to a group of C# and VB.NET developers.
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I'm asking this question as someone who works for a company with a 70% to 75% VB.NET developer community. I would say 80% of those developers do not know what an OOD pattern is. I'm wondering if this is the best thing for the health of my company's development efforts?
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Possible Duplicate: Should I learn VB.NET or C#? There are a lot of new .NET developers starting careers or school with little to no previous programming experience, or programmers moving from other languages like Perl.
View 6 RepliesMy scenario is such that I have a VB.NET project in SVN and I am using the Application Framework to start the application. This poses a great problem when different developers are working on different forms and they want to have different startup forms. Right now if we change the project settings, its changed for everyone else too. How can we work around this? Can SVN have a class committed into the repository and later changes cannot be committed into it? (more like ignoring a file but with a initial copy in the repo)
View 2 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!
after a lot of work and late nights, I finally have something to give back to the VBForums community which has helped me so much.TwitterVB is a library for communicating with Twitter. It's 100% Visual Basic.NET and coded against version 2.0 of the .NET Framework. It is free, and it is open source.
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I am not sure if this is the correct place for this, but am using a custom control in a project that I want all the developers to have access to when they download the source.
Should I just add it to the project like a normal file? If so how do I reference it in the project folder? The other developers project folders might have different paths than mine.
UPDATED: Feel like this shouldn't be that complicated, but I think I just don't know the proper name for what I'm trying to do. I'm dealing with an ASP.net project. The concept is pretty simple: I have a library that supplies some ecomm functions. One class in the libary contains functions around calculating tax. One class in the library revolves around the cart header. This class is consumed by a web project.
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Just curious ... for those whose main occupation is as a software developer what percentage of you had computer science degree vs. self taught?
View 2 RepliesI am not sure if this is the correct forum to post. I sometimes train Excel VBA. I would like to learn the language to a developers level. What relevant qualifications do Microsoft offer since I cannot find anything on their site?
View 1 RepliesI am in the process of creating a open-source project to track the Psychological Mood of a person, this application will be used by people visiting psychologists. People that are currently in therapy or want to keep track of mood changes. The program is based on CBT. To provide to the end-user the tools for him to be able to monitor his mood.To provide to the therapist additional information for the client through the automatic generation of graphs.I am looking for some volunteers to help me with Coding of the Project. I am doing the coding in Visual Basic 2010 and currently using MS Access 2007 as the Database. I have many plans to make this is a feature-rich application with the aim to help the end-user.
View 5 RepliesNo not of the Simple Object Access Protocol variety, but Soap It seams that Imperial Leather is the .NET developers soap of choice. This means however that we will all smell the same, and will make detecting a fellow developer out in the wild a little more difficult, since you cant smell your own scent. May i also suggest that PEARS Soap is not only far more visually appealing than Imperial Leather, but it actually smells much nicer too. Plus the Queen buys it as well, so just think on that the Royal bottom gets washed with this stuff:what says the masses?
View 9 RepliesWe currently have some big projects coming up which we will be creating in visual studio using vb.net There will need to be most likely three developers working on different parts of a particular project at any one time.I was just wondering if there is any sort of platform we can use so this is possible as currently each person is using a different copy of the work and then we are transferring this over onto a master copy.
View 5 RepliesWhich language is preferred by most developers especially targeting .NET & silverlight? Is it C# or VB.NET?
Are there any advantages/disadvantages of both languages when compared with each other?
Here's an interesting problem, and I'm looking for a pattern that will keep it all workable. I am building a smart-client app for a school system. It will contain information about students including their report cards, sick days, and so forth. it will generate student-level reports, including their report cards, each rich with very personal commentary by their teachers. The app will retrieve data from the remote server via web services.
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I am in college taking computer programming and we are now in multiple classes and forms. It was very hard to get ahold of at first but now that I understand it a bit better I am curious as to how often in a professional enviornment do developers create multiple classes for a project? Besides the use of custom functions what else is beneficial for it?
View 4 RepliesI'm starting a new project to handle info from some text files, a kind of sorting module so I'd like to give it a try using LINQ but looking for a book I realized that there are more c# books than vb, so I wonder if c# have better support or if it is more suitable than vb.
You think there is some advance on use c# or vb.
I have an Access 2007 database connected to SQL Server 2005. I want to use VB to create an application that will retrieve and manipulate data in our SQL database. I'm familiar with VB and I'm familiar with Access. What I don't know is how to get started creating forms in VB that's accessible through Access. Are there any books out there that will help me get started?
View 3 Replieswhile creating Excel files in vb.net, all is fine, except when I want to close my PC and there are many popups to save or delete "bookx.xls". How do I prevent these blank books from being made??
View 2 RepliesWe just spent 300 man-hours fixing a buggy application in the field. It all came down to calling Application.DoEvents (re-entrancy problem).This was not caught in design reviews, code reviews.The code was inserted two years ago with the first version; the application was always "flaky" but recent changes exposed the re-entrancy problems to a greater degree. This incident is the second time in our organization that Application.DoEvents caused failures and multi-man hours of debugging.It was discovered in this case by simply noticing the call,buried way down in a complex event handler for an asynchronous task.What do you suggest to prevent this issue from happening again:
Add checkin gates to source control?
Developer training?
Code Analysis rules (why is this not already a built-in rule?)
How to I enforce a coding practice?
I never touched the crystal reports topic before but i hae been through certain articles and found that i't not hard as it sounds. however, i need names of some good books on this topic..
View 2 RepliesAre there any books written with the focus on how to control MS Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint) through VB.net applications? I only have checked the book Professional Excel Development that shows a little bit on automating Excel from VB.net. I would need a much more comprehensive book (or links to web learning pages) on the issue.
View 6 RepliesI am looking to write my own media library and was wondering are there any free .Net APIs out there to identify a product based on a given barcode? As a secondary point are there .Net APIs to return cover art for books, CD, games etc based on a barcode.
View 3 RepliesI'm looking for some good quality OO books, if any exist for VB .Net
View 10 Repliesim tring to switch to vb.net i guess thats the only way im going to learn how to make phone apps.when i bought vb6 i thought ms would send all the books involved , maybe in pdf formate.
View 2 RepliesIt has been nearly 4 years since I have started developing with .NET - mostly with ASP.NET and SQL Server. I rarely got any time to work with Desktop application but now I want to get lower level knowledge of windows application - I mean hows window application works (Hows form is drawn, what kind of lower level objects are being used, how user control detect keystroke and up to what hierarchical level etc.)
View 3 RepliesI have tried a lot to search a book which has good discussion about sending SMS through vb2010 application.I have tried in Google,Bing, Google Books etc. but couldn't find any book which can teach me how to sent sms through WEB API..
View 8 RepliesI would really love to work on some .NET programming and SQL(what my job will consist of). You can never learn too much programming .I've finished the VB book I had in class last semester and would like some either websites or book recommendations. I would like the website/book to have a problem and have me make the program however I see fit. Also, Are there books/websites out there that incoprorate databases with .NET programming? I'm having a hard time finding that.
View 1 Repliesit seems that every Excel workbook I create in Vb, Excel automatically creates a ghost book with the name Bookn.xls where the n is incremental. After a lot of processing, I could have 20+ blank books open and running in taskmanager!
View 7 RepliesI'm creating a rather large and complex application and was wondering if any of you had any recommendations for good books on application and project architecture. Multi-user - database - heavy interaction with windows api for shell extensions.Not the standard maintenance or reporting app I usually write!
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