The best VB.NET book?

[The Phoenix]

I am looking for a VB.NET Reference book. Not something to teach me .NET, that's why I go to college. I want a reference-type book that I can use to look up things I dont know how to do, and refresh my memory on other things. Anybody have a suggestion as to which book would be a good choice?

Thanks!

[Pirate]

Mastering Visual Basic .NET by Sybex . 1210 pages

[Hu Flung Dung]

Originally posted by The Phoenix
I am looking for a VB.NET Reference book. Not something to teach me .NET, that's why I go to college. I want a reference-type book that I can use to look up things I dont know how to do, and refresh my memory on other things. Anybody have a suggestion as to which book would be a good choice?

Thanks!

Just a tip:

You'll learn .NET several times faster by studying it yourself then if you went to college.

I took a college C++ programming class (a 5 month course), and I sware I could have covered the same material in less than 3 weeks on my own.

[Memnoch1207]

Visual Basic.NET Language Reference

Visual Basic.NET Core Reference

[The Phoenix]

Hu Flung Dung: That would be perfectly fine with me. I have always been a fast learner, and it definately gets dull sometimes, if I understand something and have to sit there listening to the explanation of it six times for some other student that doesen't get it. How would you suggest I go about that? Like are there online resources? (Besides here of course) What books should I read? etc...

[Hu Flung Dung]

Originally posted by The Phoenix
Hu Flung Dung: That would be perfectly fine with me. I have always been a fast learner, and it definately gets dull sometimes, if I understand something and have to sit there listening to the explanation of it six times for some other student that doesen't get it. How would you suggest I go about that? Like are there online resources? (Besides here of course) What books should I read? etc...

It depends. How many other languages do you know? Are you comfortable with the object orientated concepts?

I'm not quite sure which would be the best book (I usually just read 1, then learn everything else online or through experimentation. The VB.NET book I read was from syngress. It was pretty good, very in-depth about how the .net framework works, but had some mistakes in it. It also assumes knowledge of VB6). The books memnoch suggested also seem really good and worth looking into.

[The Phoenix]

Well, I'm very familiar with the concepts, but This is my first language. I have a little(very little) experience with C. I have completed one semester of .NET. Some of the hardest stuff I did was reading, saving and printing form a text file, creating multiple forms, passing variables through forms, nothing real hard.

Thanks for all the help guys, you know how to make a newbie feel welcome.

[trisuglow]

My recommendation is Programming Visual Basic .NET by Francesco Balena.

[powdir]

My recommendation is Programming Visual Basic .NET by Francesco Balena.

I would second that

[Edneeis]

Originally posted by trisuglow
My recommendation is Programming Visual Basic .NET by Francesco Balena.

I third it.

[Pirate]

Originally posted by Hu Flung Dung

I'm not quite sure which would be the best book (I usually just read 1, then learn everything else online or through experimentation.

I do so also . When you hold a good grasp of the language , you just focus on that part you like such as Programming: GDI+ , Networks , Databases , DirectX , Systems ..etc . I quite sure you'll find a good tutorials about anyone of these .

Good luck