VBnet 2005?

21 Mar 2006 12:33 PM

Rick

Hi,

I've downloaded the free trial verison of Visual Basic.NET 2005.
Is there a manual anywhere?(free, of course)
I'm trying to switch from VB-Classic to VB.NET?
I'm totally new on this. I don't live in the U.S., so all the bookstores
here are completely outdated.

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Rick

21 Mar 2006 12:42 PM

Mike Williams

"Rick" <R***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I've downloaded the free trial verison of Visual Basic.NET
> 2005. Is there a manual anywhere?(free, of course) I'm trying
> to switch from VB-Classic to VB.NET?

You would probably get a better response on a dotnet newsgroup. This one is
for Classc VB (VB6).

Mike

21 Mar 2006 2:14 PM

Paul Clement

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:33:27 -0800, Rick <R***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

¤ Hi,
¤
¤ I've downloaded the free trial verison of Visual Basic.NET 2005.
¤ Is there a manual anywhere?(free, of course)
¤ I'm trying to switch from VB-Classic to VB.NET?
¤ I'm totally new on this. I don't live in the U.S., so all the bookstores
¤ here are completely outdated.

You should have been prompted to install the MSDN documentation although the path specified is
ignored. Take a look in:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft MSDN Quarterly\NETDOCS\V20

Paul
~~~~
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)

21 Mar 2006 5:29 PM

Dick Grier

Hi,

There is this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/staythepath/additionalresources/upgradingvb6/

Dick

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Richard Grier, MVP
Hard & Software
Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, Fourth
Edition,
ISBN 1-890422-28-2 (391 pages, includes CD-ROM). July 2004.
See www.hardandsoftware.net for details and contact information.

21 Mar 2006 5:37 PM

Bob Butler

"Dick Grier" <dick_grierNOSPAM@.msn.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> There is this:
>
>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/staythepath/additionalresources/upgradingvb6/

"The name is important for two reasons. First, Visual Basic is still Visual
Basic. Second, Visual Basic .NET is not Visual Basic 7."

Orwell would be proud.

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21 Mar 2006 5:58 PM

Ken Halter

"Bob Butler" <tiredofit@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>
> "The name is important for two reasons. First, Visual Basic is still
> Visual
> Basic. Second, Visual Basic .NET is not Visual Basic 7."
>
> Orwell would be proud.
>
> --
> Reply to the group so all can participate
> VB.Net: "Fool me once..."

This statement's a bit funny too...

"Microsoft made the changes because the focus of the language has shifted
from previous versions."

Replace the word "language" with "company" (as in Microsoft itself) and,
there you have it.

"This is an exciting time for Visual Basic developers. Sure, upgrading
applications takes some effort....."

Yeah... "exciting" is one word for it <g> as well as the "some effort"
part... and the use of the word "upgrade" is still suspect imo. I dunno
'bout you but, when I "upgrade" something.... a PC for example, the upgrade
runs faster. It's not just bigger. Even TVs... and upgraded TV doesn't
always mean "bigger" but it does always mean "better" (to me anyway). So
far, no one's shown anything desktop related that .Net can do that VB5/6
can't.

Gotta admit that VS2005 is the best so far, as far as dotNet's concerned
anyway. Just grab an 10ghz PC with 24 gigs of ram and you'll have nearly the
performance you do now <g>

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21 Mar 2006 7:04 PM

Rick

Thank you