Recommendation on any Vb .NET books?

Hello,

I'm deciding to start learning Vb .NET, mainly because I want to start building window-based applications and maybe later on web-based applications.

When I was younger, probably around 12-14 yrs old, I used to use Visual Basic 3.0 and 4.0 everyday. I played around with it for about 2 years or so. Now I wouldn't say I learned a whooole lot, but mainly the basics. I knew simple concepts such as using If and else , Do / Loop routines, using .bas files and calling sub routines, and making menus with Alt commands etc. Being so young, I probably didn't get too far as really understanding the language itself, at most I was still probably leaning toward an intermediate programmer by age 14.

But then I stopped. I totally stopped because I didn't really have any use for it. I basically tried self-teaching myself through examples of works, online documentation, and not a SINGLE BOOK!!!! To be honest, I was young and immature, programming AOL Punters and AOL Chat tools (this involved some API, which led be to become familiar, but not understanding everything). Then I started to became interested in Web pages. I started learning HTML , playing around with Adobe photoshop, Flash, and then eventually Perl. I've been programming Perl for about 2-3 years now and I would consider myself Intermediate / More advanced then the average.

Now I want to start moving on to Visual Basic again. I hear that Vb .NET is the way to go and that I should start with that. First, before downloading I want to know some good books I can use to start learning. I probably would consider myself a beginner so anybook for the "newbie" will be best for me.

Any recommendations on Vb .Net books??

Thank you,

Bobby :wave:

I have the VB.Net for dummies book, it is basic but it is a useful book. I have two Wrox books too. One is Begining VB.Net 2003 and Professional VB.Net. both of which are excellent.

You can't go wrong with Wrox.

Also the Sams "Teach yourself in 21 days" is a good start. My other half who has spent his life being an Exchange Architect has recently decided to pick up some VB after me tiring of writing him apps for work every few days. He's come on in leaps and bounds since having that.

Another series that comes highly recommended are those by Deitel. I work as a trainer and in a recent course, we gave the delegates books as reference material rather than a set of Microsoft course notes. They were allowed to choose a book each and by the end of the week were all fighting over who got to use the Deitel book. I have copies of all their VB books and their C# ones too. Take a look round Amazon for them.

Wrox Press: Professional VB.NET 2003 (2nd Edition)