just finished my first "book" on VB.NET and..

[Rayko]

i just finished my first "book" on VB.NET

http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/NET/vbNet.html

now i finished this, what should i go and read now?

any online reading you guys could recommend?

[Deepak Sakpal]

I think you should now start practicing what you have learned so far. Create small projects like notepad, image viewer. This may sound like a big step but i think you should give it a try at least so that you come to know how much of .NET you need to dig.

[chris128]

Yeah if you have actually read and understood everything in all of those tutorials then I would say you are certainly ready to start just trying to create some basic programs. Like Deepak said, you can try to make your own version of programs like Notepad or a calculator or whatever. Once you get started you will find out whether or not you have really understood everything you read and of course if you get really stuck you can ask on here (after checking the MSDN documentation and google of course :P )

[Jenner]

Yea, go make a card game or something. You'd be amazed what you learn trying to write an UNO game for example. It doesn't even need "graphics", just a list of cards in text-boxes. UNO is fairly ideal too since it's more simple logic than complex strategy on the AI, so programming the computer to play the other three opponents is a very simple routine. It has very defined rules as to what you can place when and when you have to draw.

Games aren't your thing? Try a movie/game/baseball card catalog program that stores your list of data in text files. It's a springboard for database programming.