Is there anywhere that i can get VB.Net other than Kazaa or any other P2P places? And what are the differences with VB 6 and VB.Net...would VB.Net be better for a career path? if so, why?
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Is there anywhere that i can get VB.Net other than Kazaa or any other P2P places? And what are the differences with VB 6 and VB.Net...would VB.Net be better for a career path? if so, why?
1) Yes, go buy it at a software store
2) There are quite a few differences between VB6 and VB.NET
You can search M$'s site for the differences
3) It's a matter of personal preference, VB6 isn't going to die anytime soon, although M$ is dropping support for it in 2008. .NET is where everything will eventually be moving.
You can download the .NET Framework SDK for FREE from Microsoft.
You can download ASP.NET Web Matrix (ASP.NET IDE) from http://www.asp.net for FREE. And I don't remember where, but there is an Add-On that someone made for ASP.NET Web Matrix that allows you to compile EXE's with it.
A better FREE IDE for creating Windows Apps is Sharp Develop, and it is available at http://www.icsharpcode.net
You really don't have to pay a thing to create applications with the .NET Framework. :D
There are a few good books out there. You could probably download them off of Kazaa, but I would Recommend BUYing them.
Visual Studio.NET is like $300 BUT if you have a student ID, at a college it is like $12...i'm not sure if all the colleges do it, but i would think most universtitys would do it..that's how i got mine. It has like VB.NET VB6 C++ C#.net and w/e else
i got mine after a visit to microsoft canada for a day....they just gave it to me
lucky guys..my sister goes to college so maybe i'll ask her if she can look into it for me. And thank you for those links.
hey u can get the sdk free of cost
whats sdk?
Software Development Kit.
Its all the classes and compilers and junk that you need to write a .NET program. The only thing that MS charges for is the .NET IDE. If you don't mind losing the Intellisense and all the perks, you can write all the programs you want in notepad and compile them at the command line.
sdk is Software Development Kit. this is actually what u need .
IDE is the fancy development environment and it costs...
btw IDE = integreated development environment
Sharp Develop is pretty nice, and free (as mentioned above). If you can't afford VS.NET then I recommend going with that.
Something that should be mentioned about Sharp Develop...
The Visual Designer for creating forms only supports C#. I would recoment learning C# anyway, since as far as I can see it is being more widely used than VB.NET. Don't get scared, the basic syntax is the only difference.