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Starting VB programming.

Well, I am going to do a little bit of Visual Basic programming.
I have on and off experience with c, c#, perl & java, so what starters will you guys suggest for me
Particular info I will be needing should include.
1. The ide (1 best free choice and one low/med cost)
2. The compiler ?
3. A suitable guide/tutorial/ to get me started making my GUI's
(specially with playing around with files, thats what I want to do primarily)

Any other things you can suggest.

Dirk Haest

Why vb6 and not vb.net or c# ?

I would suggest to use visual studio (for vb6). The design of your GUI's is the same as in c#

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DarkoLord

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Dirk Haest

VB6 FileSystemObject makes it easier to work with files
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-3513-1050078.html

Better VB6 GUI design
http://www.builderau.com.au/program/windows/soa/Better-VB6-GUI-design/0,339024644,320276042,00.htm

DarkoLord

If you want to use VB6 instead of VB.NET (I strongly recommend using .NET), then you'll have to use the old Visual Studio 6 as IDE/compiler.

arkoak

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I think I will be using VB.NET, I was not clear in my question, sorry about that.

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Dirk Haest

If you're choosing vb.net (luckily), then I would suggest the same as DarkoLord.

arkoak

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ok, I have checked out http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/, its pretty good and I think more then enough for my requirements. But there is one thing I want to know, when I visually design a form, I cannot see the detailed code behind it.

For example, I place a component on a form1 in my project, and set its size to x1 & y1.
How can I see the values x1 and y1 in code. The code I can see in *.vb files does not seem to contain this.

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Dirk Haest

Depending of the version you're using, (fe 1.1) there can also be a "Windows Form Designer generated code"-region in your code

arkoak

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ok. pretty simple the last one.
Thanks all for the help.