Newbie: How Do I Test My Visualbasic Code?

Hello. I have close to three years' experience with html/javascript/asp/vbscript/perl. So all of my experience to date has been through browsers.

For an upcoming project, I will need to use Visualbasic, which I understand is not necessarily through the browser, if at all.

So I wish to get some practice. How do I do this? I suppose if I had SQL server, I could write some Stored Procedures, which I understand are written in Visualbasic, and I could call them. But I don't have SQL server. What I have is MS Access, which doesn't have Stored Procedures.

How do I just play around and experiment with Visualbasic? What do I need to do?

Thank you.

Welcome yisraelharris :)


If you just want to play around (and you said you have M$ Access) then you could use VBA.

However, if you want to use VB exclusively, then there are crippled versions of VB6 (Learning Edition and the like) that are available for nix, or VB6 itself.





Bruce.

1. Install Visual Studio 6

2. Start going through VB tutorials (or buy a book). VB6 is very easy, and you should be started in no time, provided you're a fast learner!

Once you get through the basics of VB, there'll be something called "ADO", which you would need to use to work with databases. You can experiment with your MDB files, and it'll be quite similar to working with SQL Server, with the change of a Connection String in there (You'll understand once you get there!)

You mention you know ASP, so ADO shouldn't be very difficult for you.

Good luck :thumb: