Visual Basic

Hi chaps,

can anyone recommend a forum for a beginner in VB?

Ta chaps!

Steve

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Mr Sandman
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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

Reply to
John Whitworth

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.

Reply to
stuart noble

'sucse asking but what is VC# ?????

Reply to
tony sayer

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.

Reply to
Tim Watts

That'll be because MS were driven to it by Java.

Reply to
Huge

In message , Tim Watts writes

Well, what musicians call sharp

Reply to
geoff

And they used the '#' to look like the two '+' symbols from C++ were merged together

Reply to
Andy Burns

I make it four '+' symbols, i.e. C++ times two.

Reply to
Gib Bogle

And the merkins call a pound.

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

Octothorpe, innit.

Reply to
Huge

Isn't that up Lincolnshire way? ;o)

Reply to
Tinkerer

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.

Reply to
Tinkerer

I thought that was a corral for old chevvies

Reply to
geoff

Does it predict rugby scores?

Reply to
geoff

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

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Andy Champ

+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.

Reply to
Mark

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;

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Reply to
Huge

easily.

Reply to
Mark

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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Andy Dingley

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