Newb Help!

Hello everybody. I am new here, as you can see with my post count, and I have just started to learn programming. I used to mess around with qbasic back in '94 when I was a freshman but that didnt last long. I am currently trying to teach myself how to program and I have taken basic computer science and intro to programming logic classes. I am currently reading Special Edition Ising Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and I am moving along through it. One thing I need though is a list of all the namespace type stuff so that I know what I need to use when it comes to it, kinda like a reference. Does anyone know where I can download one so that I can print it out. Thanks alot. Also are there people on here that coul help new people such as give them things to try and do based on their level? Just curious because I seem to have a hard time trying to think of something to program at the level I am at. Thanks alot again.

A box copy of any of the Visual Studio products comes with a couple of gigantic posters that have the Framework laid out on paper. Also when it comes to a particular class/member, you can just look in the builtin help and it will show exactly what namespace it lives in, e.g. for MessageBox:
ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwindowsformsmessageboxclasstopic.htm

Quote:

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MessageBox Class [Visual Basic]See Also
MessageBox Members | System.Windows.Forms Namespace | Show | MessageBox Members (Visual J# Syntax) | Managed Extensions for C++ Programming
Requirements
Namespace: System.Windows.Forms

Platforms: Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 family, .NET Compact Framework - Windows CE .NET

Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)
Language
C#

C++

JScript

Visual Basic

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Displays a message box that can contain text, buttons, and symbols that inform and instruct the user.

For a list of all members of this type, see MessageBox Members.

System.Object
System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox

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On top of that, the Object Browser (View menu -> Object Browser) will allow you to drill around in various assemblies (e.g. System.Windows.Forms) and see what they contain. Hope this helps.

check these out ( links to MSDN ) , hope they'll help ya


Documentation Map by Technology



or if you want to see all the classes in each namespace

Class Library

Thanks for the help. I dont have any of the gigantic posters that you refered to. I did check out the websites, but where the sites went to didn't lead to any references but after searching around I found somethings that would help so thank you to everyone that helped. If you have any other helpful hints or sites or anything that could help me it would be appreciated. Once again thanks.

Hi I found in the help files all of the keywords and such and was wondering if there is a way to print them out. I can print out the page with the links to them but it doesnt print out the linked pages. Is there any way to do this without cutting and pasting into another doc then printing out? Thanks.

If you have the online help installed (if you have a commercial release then you should) then you can start IE and paste in, for example:
ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwindowsforms.htm
(assuming you have the same month/year MSDN as I do anyhow)

... and print what follows. You can also get it from msdn.microsoft.com:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...pref_start.asp

...you will have to drill into each link you are interested in and check if it's what you want, and print those you are looking for. Good luck.