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What next?

Asked by: shireen_shabbir

Hi

I am interested in VB. I have made done a few very simple exercises like creating a form and adding a little bit of interactivity to it. Also done a bit of DAO Connectivity.

What is next? I want to learn more. I need a few sites that will teach me or few book titles that will help me. Especially interested in ActiveX objects.

Please advise...

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2000-10-02 at 12:10:56ID11435938
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Visual Basic Programming

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by: q2eddiePosted on 2000-10-02 at 12:33:54ID: 4540482

Hi, shireen_shabbir.

#Link
http://www.vb-bookmark.com/vbTutorial.html

Bye. -e2

 

by: q2eddiePosted on 2000-10-02 at 12:34:43ID: 4540485

 

by: dreamvbPosted on 2000-10-02 at 13:16:35ID: 4541333

Hava a look on my site I have quit a thew project and other stuff that might help you get started Well it helped me get past My Exams last year

go here

http://www.dreamvb.s5.com

or here

http://www.codearchive.com/~dreamvb

Hava fun

 

by: renaissancePosted on 2000-10-02 at 15:15:02ID: 4543275

Hi shireen,

The websites that both g2eddie and dreamvb are all extremely helpful sites.

I would recommend, if you have the money, or your company has the budget, buying a few books.  I have found the MS Press nooks to be extremely helpful (though many do not).  There is a lot to choose from.

Personally, I think your next step would be to look into the other data environments such as ADO and RDO, as well as some minor multimedia and file I/O.  These are some of the most important and commonly used skills that every VB programmer uses.  While that is not the case for every programmer, and you will have to find your own path, I think it is a good place to start.


In addition to these, make sure you have good reference sources.  The <a href=http://msdn.microsoft.com>MSDN Developer site</a> I tend to find very useful and looking around on this site as well.

If you are interested in a MCSD certification and are truly interested in Activex/COM here are some titles:

*Programming Components with Microsoft Visual Basic
*Designing Component Based Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic
*Programming Distributed Applications with COM and Microsoft Visual Basic
*Visual Basic Language Reference
*Visual Basic Desktop Applications

What I can tell you for sure is that a good deal of it comes from experience.  Books and sites and tools all help, but you need to get out there and do it.  The benefit you have is that you have found this site and it is filled with many good experts on any problem you may have.

--Renaissance

 

by: DwarfBabyPosted on 2000-10-02 at 19:21:55ID: 4546144

Visual Basic is a very good beginners language and its interface with databases has got to be the quickest and least painful.  If you can get around its few weaknesses a good size program can be programmed in half the time as other languages.  I don’t know your programming history but if you are new to programming in general I would seriously consider looking into a beginning Java or C++ book.  Even if you are not planning on using these languages the object oriented approach these books usually offer will help tremendously.  But enough of that, here are some great links to VB sites.      

http://www.cgvb.com/links/lpage.boa/BEGINNER
http://www.vbinformation.com/tutor.htm
http://codeguru.developer.com/vb/Tutorials/index.shtml
http://vb-world.net/beginning/  (I just discovered this one but it looks good)
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/3791/vbtutor.html
http://www.vb-web-directory.com/tutorial/tutorial.shtml
http://www.vbweb.co.uk/
http://vbwire.com/advanced/
http://www.codearchive.com/vbasic/  
http://www.mvps.org/btmtz/
http://blackbeltvb.com/
http://vbtechniques.com/
http://www.fmsinc.com/products/vbsbook/index.html
http://www.arcatapet.com/vb.html
http://www.vb-helper.com/howto.htm
http://www.winsite.com/win95/programr/vbasic/page2.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/  (a.k.a. Microsoft)
www.freeskills.com (I do not care for this site but you can take a look, some people seem to like it)
http://www.freeskills.com/listcourses?cobrand=freeskills&category=47http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/
http://www.advercast.com/vb/index.shtml
http://www.vb-web-directory.com/ (I put this at the bottom because it is not user friendly)

                  DwarfBaby

 

by: emoreauPosted on 2000-10-02 at 19:47:46ID: 4546439

You should better use ADO than DAO!

 

by: DwarfBabyPosted on 2000-10-02 at 20:23:43ID: 4546781

DwarfBaby again,

     My favorite book for both ActiveX controls and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) has got to be Advanced Visual Basic 6 2nd edition by Kip Irvine & Kaiyang Liang.  Don’t let the title fool you its more like an intermediate book.  It kicks butt nonetheless.  Emoreau is right, Microsoft is switching entirely to ADO controls so you should probably learn Ado instead of DAO.
 

 

by: shireen_shabbirPosted on 2000-10-03 at 03:07:39ID: 4550864

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