Hi guys, I wanna teach myself Visual Studio mainly Visual basic. Many moons ago I did a night courses in cobol and C but haven't get any experiance with the Visual studio suite or anything like that. Is there a book anybody can recommend for a beginner to visual basic and using visual studio. Looked at dummies guide but that also expects some knowlege of visual basic. Thanks guys
First grab Visual Studio Express http://www.microsoft.com/express/ for the language you want. If you've done C before, then you'll probably find it easier to learn C#, and as VB.Net and C# are functionally identical within the .net framework, there's no real need to learn VB. Once you know C# and the .net framework well enough the VB knowledge is pretty easy. I did it the other way round for example; I started on ASP, went to ASP.NET with VB, then ASP.NET with C#, then other C-style languages like PHP and a bit of Javascripting. As for books, O'Reilly you can never go far wrong with, and I've personally used a couple of good Wrox books on earlier versions (that was for ASP.NET specifically however).
i would also argue c# over VB.net as it appears to me that Microsoft are pushing C# harder than VB.net Currently I personally also find it easier to read and use in terms of reading the Microsoft MSDN website has loads of free tutorials