Hi chaps,
can anyone recommend a forum for a beginner in VB?
Ta chaps!
Steve
Hi chaps,
can anyone recommend a forum for a beginner in VB?
Ta chaps!
Steve
Although I use VB still, I'd recommend any beginner in VB become a beginner in VC# instead. The languages are now very similar (i.e. they both make extensive use of the underlying dotnet framework), yet VC# has much more potential, following and support. The majority of code examples you'll find online will be for VC#. As for the best forum - I'd say Google each query you have, and select the best forum on a 'per question' basis.
JW
I found recording macros in Excel and Access quite a useful way to get started. Gives you the framework and then you can mess around editing it. Never got much further than that mind.
'sucse asking but what is VC# ?????
tony sayer wibbled on Saturday 24 July 2010 16:44
"Visual C-sharp."
("sharp" being what merkins call the #)
I don't rate much that comes out of M$ but I did quite like the look of C#, especially compared to C++. There's even an opensource environment, mono, for it.
That'll be because MS were driven to it by Java.
In message , Tim Watts writes
Well, what musicians call sharp
And they used the '#' to look like the two '+' symbols from C++ were merged together
I make it four '+' symbols, i.e. C++ times two.
And the merkins call a pound.
Octothorpe, innit.
Isn't that up Lincolnshire way? ;o)
In Access you can use VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) which is vastly similar to VB. There are differences but it's an easy way to start. It is available in Excel but Access is the better one for learning - the help files are pretty good too.
I thought that was a corral for old chevvies
Does it predict rugby scores?
I'd second that. C# is a pretty good language, and the run-time system is now the same as VB. It has the advantage too that no-one will laugh at you when you use it.
Stay off C++ unless you intend to make a career of software development. It's complex.
It is of course pretty much tied to Windows (I've never heard of commercial use anywhere else). It also runs out of puff for some system level applications - but not as soon as VB.
Andy
+1. VB is/should be dead nowadays and it was always a poor programming language IMHO. +1
There's the mono-project for a cross platform dotnet development. I'd recommend Java if you want go cross platform. Java is free and there are plenty of free development environments and masses of examples.
I'd hold off committing any amount of effort until we see what Oracle are going to do with Java. The portents are not good;
easily.
Java is bigger than Gosling, it's even bigger than the pram he's just thrown his toys out of.
As a general rule of thumb, anyone still using a Duke logo in 2010 is a crazy old beardie loon who hates what Java has become, hates JSF (and server-side frameworks that generate client-side JavaScript components in general) in particular, and would be happier (hippier?) at Gnu.
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