im new/question/help

as you can tell im new here joined to improve my skills in vb ( i just started )
you might have seen me around other forums i go as "thewerx" or "exhale"
question is, where can i find some tutorials to learn some basic things?
help, im wanting to make a program to input a textfile (.txt) and remove the duplicate names ( whether its in order or not ), and remove certain things such as "!" "@" "#" "$" etc etc(symbols)
or is there a tutorial for this too?
if this is in the wrong section my apologizes :)
-thanks

Welcome to the Forums

What language you using to do this?

sorry for tryin to post multiple times btw.
im using visual basic 2008 express

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You might like to start here. You should also bookmark the MSDN VB Developer Centre and follow some of the links there.

ok thanks jmcilhinney :)
anyone make me a tutorial or some hints/tips on the make a dupe remover?