help! new to vb

[mole01]

hi there i am new to vb & planning to start learning vb
my question is is it necessary to learn vb6 in order to learn vb 2005 or i can straight away start with vb2005 without ving any knowledge of vb6
i ve programming experiance in C & access
kindly guide me thru
thanks

[stefano5]

Learning VB 2005 from scratch is far easier in my opinion than switching from VB6 to 2005. Infact learning VB6 is not necessary at all.

Hope all goes well

[-TPM-]

Sure you can start with .net, I did

[mutasim]

Hi, I can speak from experience...

I started learning VB 2005 a few weeks ago, I'm 15 years old and have no programming knowledge at all. And here I am two weeks on and I have learnt quite alot without the need to learn any VB6. It's great fun!!

Good luck

- Mutasim

[mole01]

thanks all u guys
&mutasim u must be genius
can u all recomend any books for starters
iam planning on "ms vb2005 step by step from microsoft press"

[ComputerJy]

Actually it'd be a very bad idea to learn vb6 then switch to .NET, because there lots of differences between those 2 versions. Huge Differences.
Professional Programmers who used to work with VB6 had difficulties switching to .NET, "There are more books on switching from VB6 to .NET than starting with .NET because it's much more difficult to switch.
so you can start with VB2005... it's easier by all means

[stefano5]

The O'Reilly Books are always my preference when learning new programming languages.

Programming Visual Basic 2005 (ISBN 0-596-00949-6)
Visual Basic 2005 In A Nutshell (ISBN 0-596-10152-X)

[WayneSpangler]

Check out this site:
http://searchvb.techtarget.com/gener...133500,00.html
Scroll down to get to tutorials. I have done some of them and thought they were good.
I am an ex-vb6 programer and didn't have any problems switching to vb.net. I think most of it is in the mind. If you learn to program then the language you use is mostly learning the syntax.

[Chipmunk]

some fundamentals (not in depth) of VB6 defenitly will help specially oops though its not important

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[jmcilhinney]

I'm posting purely to provide my signature, in which I've compiled a collection of useful links.

[stefano5]

As with all programming languages the best way to learn is to just get stuck into a project. If you're familiar with C you'll already know the theory behind most of the methods, and object oriented programming, its just the Syntax is different. VB2005 is great fun, the code almost writes itself and its a very eligant language. Its only downfall is its just not JAVA

[mole01]

thanx for all the advice its very helpfull