i just started learnin VB.net and it isn't playing fair on me, pls i need e-materials and some sites to get me through

Khuna i study programming as a 'part time' course and I've never had so much interest until VB. I REALLY DON'T LIKE c+ but 'ving some basic knowledge in it 'll help ur VB . u can visit VBCODE.COM or CODELANCE.COM

Keep at it brother. If you consider the power it gives you and the ease of leaning together, you are probably on the best programming language. If you can let me know the part you have problem with I can check for some of my collection that treated it very well for you. There is no programming language that should trouble anybody that can read and write english language

You can check these websites for materials

www.xpressionsz.com/archives/category/programming/page/1
www.ebooksportal.org/category/it-ebooks/net/page/1

i never liked vb6 i'll try vb.net but am not much of a microsoft fan anylonger am considering sumtin like java

adewaleafolabi
VB6 sure has some shortcomings but they really didn't impact much on it's strength. But vb2005 rub shoulders with the best language in the world. For Rapid Application Development, there is yet to be a language like VB. I know you like open source stuffs. Try www.sharpdevelop.com for an open source alternetive to microsoft VB IDE. You'll need .Net framework 2.0. Microsoft also has a free but a bit watered down VB studio on their web site. You won't miss the features left out unless you are developing in a team or you want to make a custom control. You can make VB your 2nd (or 3rd) language.

thanks does that mean code written i vb 2005 would be able to run on other os like linux because vb 6 stop only on windows. when it comes to speed vb has no rival when it comes to porting codes to other os i believe c would win

ok so does anyone knows where i can get the express edition? downloading is an impossible option thanks

Codes written for .net platform does not run on Linux but I think an emulator can help in that regards. I've not tried it though, and not very sure as my works on Linux is mainly with java So I don't bother any other OS with windows things.
If you are so particular about interaction between .Net languages and Linux, you can google "mono" to know more

For VB express, try using a download manager so that it will not be very frustrating. OR I can burn it for you if you have a blank CD but I'm in Abuja.

adewaleafolabi:

thanks does that mean code written i vb 2005 would be able to run on other os like linux because vb 6 stop only on windows. when it comes to speed vb has no rival when it comes to porting codes to other os i believe c would win

where have u been? microsoft have re-designed VB its now fully OOP and its just as good a C, and when it comes to porting to another platform its also possible because the whole idea behide .net is that its platform independant, all linux needs to have is the .net framework but i dont think microsoft will ever release a .Net framework for a rival platform like linux, but i think there's one for Mac OS and Palm OS.

parosky:

Keep at it brother. If you consider the power it gives you and the ease of leaning together, you are probably on the best programming language. If you can let me know the part you have problem with I can check for some of my collection that treated it very well for you. There is no programming language that should trouble anybody that can read and write english language

You can check these websites for materials

www.xpressionsz.com/archives/category/programming/page/1
www.ebooksportal.org/category/it-ebooks/net/page/1

Its hopeless trying to download anything from here, u have premuim account or something

well thanks everyone well in the mean time am stuck to windows my linux hard disk died after 8months isn't that strange its even a seagate. i heard sumtin about mono i'll give it a try

andre5
You are not the first time I heard this comment about those website esp. xpressiosz but I have a load of materials I downloaded from these sites and I don't have a premium account.

adewaleafolabi
Sorry about your hard disk. Hope you don't have a lot of stuffs on it. I heard people say seagate crash more often than other brands.

well not much the one that pained me was the windows partition on another hard disk that the files were gone

so good to hear you guys are learning VB hope one can get e-materials from you guys?

EBOOKS links that work, took be hours to track down these site,
omo guy, dont crash the site.

http://www.b213.net/index.php?id=asp
http://novian.web.ugm.ac.id/vbnet.php

@ Andre 5
God Bless you , You dont know how much you have saved a life with this information.

parosky:

Codes written for .net platform does not run on Linux . . .

Hey guys there's Mono and dotGNU? These are the OpenSource versions of the .NET runtime! Boy, you can run/compile your C# and VB.NET apps in Linux!