Good VB 5 tutorial w/ example code

http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/hci/VB50/home.html

http://www.planetsourcecode.com
http://www.freevbcode.com
http://www.vbcode.com

How old is VB5 and is it still a useful app?

Its kind of old.It is still usefull but there were alot of features added to VB6 that make things easier. Microsoft has now moved on to VB.net which is the latest.

To be honest, there isn't much you can do in VB 6 that you can't do in VB 5 (or would want to do, period.)  The move to ADO as the primary way to communicate with databases was the biggest change from VB 5 to 6.  You can use ADO in VB 5, but built in support is limited (help is limited to external files instead of keyword context help, plus you don't have the data environment, etc.)  Most things that you want to do in ADO can also be done using VB5's DAO libraries for which the built in support is substantial.

You can probably pick up VB 5 books for next to nothing these days.  Your installation should include a feature called "Books Online" which has a lot of MSDN type info on how to approach certain tasks.

Also there are some good sample programs that are included with your VB disks.  

So far johnny6 has got the points, but I will leave this open a few days if there is any more input.

Thanks =o)

www.developersites.com
www.webopedia.com
www.vb-bookmark.com
www.top219.org/vb/ 
www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/hci/VB50/home.html 
www.imt.net/~joe/matt/program/vb/ 
www.intelbrief.com/visualbasic.htm 
www.vbxtras.com/otherweb.asp 
www.webwareindex.com/tutorials/VB.html 
www.cyber-matrix.com/vb.htm 
www.vbce.com/ 
www.vb-bookmark.com/vbBeginners.html 
www.webmastertoolscentral.com/programming/vb/tutorials.html
simplythebest.net/info/vbasic.html
www.theindianprogrammer.com/resources/vbasic
www.3dlinks.com/3dprogramming_visualbasic.cfm 
www.justphukit.com/visual-basic/ visual-basic-tutorials-1.php
www.codeguru.com/vb/index.shtml 
www.vbip.com/default.asp 
www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/vbsites.htm 
www.devseek.com/Programming_Languages/Visual_Basic/Tutorials/ 
www.knowledgehound.com/topics/vb.htm 
www.thescarms.com
www.silvermaine.co.uk/generalvblinks.htm 
www.programmingpages.com
www.aivosto.com/vblinks.html 
www.tutorials-online.com/ 
www.codesites.com/search/ search.cgi?category=Visual%20Basic&start=80

Bruce McKinney's "Hardcore Visual Basic" is available at
http://www.mvps.org/vb/hardcore/
Bruce's VB links are at
http://home.attbi.com/~bruce2u2/other.htm

I wrote a few apps in VB5 using DAO recordsets with Access back ends, which are going to remain live for a while.  I still earn a few bucks supporting them.

Which reminds me: make sure that you patch up your copy with Service Pack 3, and beware of DLL conflicts with machines which have Office2000/Office97 installed if you're communicating with Access, Excel or Word (which all my apps do).

And the VB5 help files are actually pretty good, apart from a few rare mistakes in parameter passing types.  I originally taught myself from the help files, with a few Qs in this TA.

Here are a few more:

37) http://visualbasic.ittoolbox.com/
38) http://www.vbwm.com/
39) http://visualbasic.about.com/
40) http://www.vbcode.com/
41) http://searchvb.techtarget.com/
42) http://www.vbcity.com/page.asp?p=home
43) http://vbprogzone.cjb.net/



John

Thanks for all the input.

hope the links which i have posted are also usefule..

Post in the Q I put up for you.

was there a VB1,VB2,VB3,VB4 ??

There certainly was a vb4, and I think I remember vb3, but not sure about the other 2.

I think version 1 was a DOS product, and version 2 the first windows version.  VB 3 was the first hugely popular version.  Version 4 sucked IMO, version 5 and 6 were both pretty good in comparison.

I am learning VB.NET now, and it is a completely different language.