I'm new to VB programming usually im a PHP programmer, i am advancing fairy fast on the structure, theres one thing i have been stumped on[URL]..What im trying to do is when i put the detaisl in the fields, i press save and then am prompted to save with my own extension
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I would like to learn a new programming language to be able to compile the same code for different platforms.
My background in programming: VB.NET (I have been using it as my main language for the past 3 years), some Java (to which I couldn't really adapt) and very limited PHP. I use a Mac Book with OS X to code.
I'd like to find a PL with a very easy learning curve from VB.NET, cross-platform IDE and able to compile the same for Windows, Mac and Linux.
I am a beginning programmer, so a object-oriented, .net like language is probably my best bet.
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the best direction to becoming proficient in Visual Basic and later maybe other languages? I work full-time as an Information Management Officer for the DoD and I am also a full-time student (CMIT Major) and father. I have to try as it is to balance my time and find ways to get programming practice in but admittedly it has proven difficult. I am currently taking my second class in Visual Basic and had a previous class in Java as well.
Next term I will be taking advanced VB but i don't feel at all like I'm very good at VB, especially not good enough to be taking an advanced class. I desperately want to become a proficient programmer and was wondering if anyone could suggest a good, at-you-own-pace program or instructional books, videos, anything, that would walk me through creating beginner, intermediate, then advanced VB programs and techniques and different ways to deploy applications created in VB?
I code primarily in vb.net. I've been doing basic dependency injection manually and am looking to learn more about DI/IoC and maybe use a DI/IoC framework/container like Ninject. There are lots of examples and write-ups using Java and C# code. I'm looking for the best resources for vb.net programmers. Likewise, is there a particular framework that would be easiest for a vb.net programmer to pick up?
View 3 RepliesI am looking to switch to C#. I come from a C / C++ background but C# is a little different for me. I am switching mainly because of Silverlight and MVVM; all examples are in C#. Any information is in C# and I am confused when I read through it all.
What is a good place to start learning C# when starting with existing C / C++ knowledge?
For a few years I developed websites in PHP, but couldn't get a job doing this nearly two years ago. I spent a year teaching (and if your thinking of teaching, my advice is don't! In the UK anyway), but kept handing my CV out to different web development companies. One of these offered me a job, but the downside (or upside, depending on your views) that they only developed websites in ASP.NET. I made the decision for a career change and accepted the job.
In ASP.NET, you can develop in either C# or VB.NET. The guys I work with are using VB.NET, and I have to say I'm struggling with it. I can understand the basics but it just seems weird, especially as I've come from PHP. C# on the other hand, looks similar to PHP. I'm contemplating learning C# instead of VB, but I'd like to know what other peoples opinions are about doing this?
How to tell a programmer he is wrong?
View 1 RepliesI'm writing a program in VB.NET 2010 that will connect to the PICkit(TM) 1 FLASH Starter Kit's USB programmer and send it commands to turn on or off something connected to the attached eLab16m board, for example, an LED. This is all done by using the libhid.net DLL. The vendor id is &H4D8 and the product id is &H32.
Update I've written a console program that outputs what's happening. Here's the output:Where it says device with report id 0x10, I am trying to query the firmware version from the USB Programmer.Update 2 I've fixed the problem with the Wacom Bamboo tablet by uninstalling its software and drivers from my computer. The error has disappeared from the command line, but it still shows the 0x10 error.
I need some basic assistance understanding how to mess with bytes. And when I say basic, I mean dumb it down for me, I'm a self taught hobbiest mostly and only spent 4 years proffessionally in development. And that 4 years was a database programmer handling the connecting, retreiving and inserting of data into various databases.
I can't honestly think of the last time I had to do anything with Bytes, but I do know that when I did, all of the functions that actually did anything were written by someone else. So start off, I've been trying to handle them like strings, and that's not working for me (you probably guessed that).
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I've been programming in C/C++ for several years and want to learn enough Visual Basic to create GUI front ends for some of my C programs & also so I know that C functions I have written can be called by VB programs that others write. I expect that the C programs would have to be turned into DLLs for this to work.
I have created some C DLLs & created other C programs that sucessfully call the functions in the DLLs. BTW I did this with Visual Studio 2010, would there be any advantages to using other versions?Can anyone recommend a book or a website to quickly get me up to speed on VB while allowing me to skip over the parts that are intended for people who are new to programming?
Many of my programs call functions from the Windows API such as CreateFile. IINM these functions can be called from VB, but it is done differently than in Visual C++, eg: in C++ Create file returns a HANDLE variable, but the HANDLE variable type doesn't exist in Visual Basic. So I'll need to learn enough about how Visual Basic uses the Windows API to pass the file HANDLE from the C functions to the VB calling program & back.
A job recruiter asked me if I could take over writing code for a device that uses Windows CE. He didn't know much about it except that he thought the previous programmer was using Visual Basic, and he thought it might be Visual Basic.NET, along with SQL Server. I'd like to take over this programming job if I am qualified, but I don't know if I am. I have developed code using VB.NET, C#.NET, SQL Server for standard Windows. I used .NET to build programs that run on Windows desktop, and also the WPF platform. I also built ASP.NET and Silverlight programs for the web. In addition I have written programs that interface with machinery using serial and TCP coimmunications.
Would I be able to get up-to-speed on taking over the coding of a program that targets Windows CE? Does Windows CE allow .NET managed code or just C++ and VB6? Would it be advisable to try to get this job or would taking it lead to problems and disappointment?
I'm thinking of trying to learn VB 2008, and I was wondering if there's an online guide or tutorial to get going from the ground up - from the perspective of a former long-time VB6 user (makes it a bit easier to relate functions in VB 2008 and how they replace older functions in VB6)?
View 1 RepliesCurrently on an internship from my CS degree, we have some down time and I'd like to spend it working through a series of problems (although none too large) that would advance my programming skills and allow me to dip my toes in a large breadth of different topics and areas. Unfortunately, everything I do must be done in vb.net on .net 2.0, without downloading any particular libraries.I've already worked through many of the "code-golf" tagged problems on here and the programming praxis problems posed by dailywtf.
View 7 RepliesI've declared a class called WindowIDNamePair in which I associate the hwnd of a window with the window's text. (See end of this post)
I've declared an array of type WindowIDNamePair as follows:
Private windowList(0 To 500) As WindowIDNamePair To test the array and class I'm doing the following:
windowList(0) = New WindowIDNamePair(1, "a")
windowList(1) = New WindowIDNamePair(2, "b")
windowList(2) = New WindowIDNamePair(3, "c")
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In my friends company the management brought up the topic of moving in the WPF to design rich UIs. Majority of the employees of the company are programmers and only 3-4 graphic designers. The management wants to train the graphic designers with WPF so that their graphics skills could be applied in creating UIs. However, programmers have a mighty obligation for this. They have written several complaints to the management that WPF is not just Graphics but it has programming in XAML. SO the programmers wants to take over UI design as well (in the past programmers did the UI part as well)...... I'm a programmer therefore i'm with the programmers.
What would be the most suited solution for my friends compnay, should they move the graphic designers the WPF or should they train the current programmers to design UIs in WPF?
How can more than one programmer work on the same project at one time? is this possible? it surely must be possible??
View 2 RepliesI am an experienced vb6 programmer, even completed MCSD cert back in 2000. I have done alot since then, and I am thinking about learning vb.net where should i get started? From what I have seen briefly, the ADO is some of the biggest change from vb 6
View 3 RepliesI have recently taken a liking to programming, and have programmed a few games in C#,my friend has asked me to program an application for him to use in his shop. But I have no idea of what language is best suitable?
View 8 RepliesI have downloaded and installed VB 2010 Express. I have used "Manage Help Settings" to download and install content to disk. My computer seems to know that has happened as I navigate through the various "Manage Help Settings" menus. As a former VB 6 programmer
I am used to getting context sensitive help at the click of a mouse. I spite of the steps above, when I click "Help' on the menu I get transferred to the Visual Studio website without any oportunity to access the local help I suspect must be there somewhere.
I avidly create games in VB.net. Being a hobby programmer I give my games away for free. Since I'm a hobbiest without formal training I do try and educate myself on proper programming principles and follow them when programming such as OOP. There are however some things I have obviously missed being self-taught that perhaps I would know if I were formally educated. Once such issue that has really been my bane is how different classes (from now on referred to as objects) 'know' about each other WITHOUT programming specific interaction.
Okay imagine this, you have a space game and the following objects
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Now each one of these objects has a Health, X,Y and Z private members and properties that are all inherited from clsSpaceEntity for argument sake. Now one way of programming collision between them would be to code out the following logic in the main game loop
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Now this might seam okay if your talking about the simple example above but some of my games have tens or even HUNDREDS of objects that interact in this basic way. Is there a way in OOP to do the following... for each thing that inherits from clsSpaceEntity check against every other object that inherits this type (except itself) and if they collide then reduce health next? This sort of ability for a type of objects/class or whatever to be 'aware' of another and how they are the same/different and interact would save me tonnes and tonnes and TONNES of coding.
In the about use should be a label and a button. The label should tell about the program and have the name of the programmer and the button should hide the about us form.Here's my code:
Public Class Form1
Private Sub ExitToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ExitToolStripMenuItem.Click[code].....
In short words I am looking for a .NET translation of JFugue.Update I realize that there is no real .NET alternative for JFugue,Note: I want to emphsize that my search is on the transcription part, not the playing part, in other words, I am looking for a .NET engine that has MIDI-mapping classes etc.
View 5 Repliesim using tasks parallel library in .net 4.0 i want to have the ability to specify a task for each core independant of the other cores. usually in TPL, i create a task and i tell it to run in parallel, i have no control over the number of threads created nor can i control the number of cores to participate in the parallel task. also, i cant specify each particular core a different task.i'd like to know how to achieve this in TPL if it is possible.
View 3 Repliesn a program i'm using i want to be able to create a box (done that) but pressing a button, but now i need to attach a sub onto it so i can interact with it, how would i do this?
View 6 RepliesSo far I have worked with C Programming and C++ Programming. I am fairly new to DOT NET environment and my current project requires VB.Net skills. I need to know
1)Which books to refer for starting with VB.Net language?
2)How to Start with VB.Net Programming?
3)Are there any forums/articles for quick head start.
I want to use VB for linear programming. Can any one tell me the best approach or give sample codes.
View 2 RepliesI have done my application programming in VB. But now i am trying to do some application related to network programming. But i am unable to find the winsock control in Visual Studio 2010.
View 5 RepliesI have been reading up on the parallel programming and even now still a little confused on the whole concepts. Lets say I have a single project with about 5 classes that interact and have local variables in methods and variables accessible to all methods in a single class and even 1 or 2 variables accessible to all classes accessed through instantiation. Now using threads I know that global variables would be overridden by multiple threads if there were no locking applied but local variables to a method/function do not, right?
So if I ran the project multiple times meaning as a new process, the methods and variables would be thread safe right and no data corruption occurs? So to implement parallel programming using the task factory, if I created a project that basically creates tasks and each task is basically running an instance of another project, then shouldn't the variables and data be thread safe and safe from corruption? But what if I had the output files and they named by Output & datetime.now.tostring, would there be conflict issues and I ask this knowing that I have seen this happen when trying it. [Code]
i was wondering how do you know if your programming in vb.net or vb 6.0 idk the difference.
View 12 RepliesI have a general question about the programming language vb.net. I wonder how I should see the vb.net language compared to a "lower generation " language like for example C+.For example if you had to develop a CRM application , can you build such an application in both programming languages with the same amount of detail and efficiency?
Is it right if I say that the "language" vb.net is an abstract version of for a example a lower language like C+ in a way that the same possibilities are possible as with C+ but more efficient so it takes the programmer less time? So basically if you would compare it with building a house in C+ you would need to build a door with all the separate pieces while in vb.net you would just place a door as a whole. But this does not mean the possibilities of building a house as a whole are fewer.
So now comes my final question: can vb.net be seen as a true programming language like C and can somebody who masters vb.net be seen as an equally good programmer as somebody who masters C+. Or would the C+ programmer in this case be superior?