Best book to learn VB.net for intermediate programmer

Question

Hi All,

I need to learn VB.net in Visual Studio 2005 Express for my job. I'm not that good or experienced of a programmer.

I've done Basic and Pascal in school. I played with assembly language programming a Motorola HC08 processor a little. For the past 2 years I have done some involved things in Access using VBA. At work we have an old VB6 frontend to an Access database I need to migrate and maintain in VB.net.

Can anyone tell me what they think the best book would be to get me up to speed on VB.net as quickly as possible? The only one I found on Amazon that seemed like it might be ok is http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Visual-Basic-Jesse-Liberty/dp/0596003862/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235746477&sr=1-3

Thanks.

Answer 1

I liked "Windows Forms 2.0 Programming," by Chris Sells and Michael Weinhardt

Answer 2

A bit of an aside, but you might find some useful info on learning VB by also looking at the responses to this post:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71956/vb-net-tutorials

Best of luck!

Answer 3

I would say that the single best all-round book, IMO, would be:

Pro VB 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform

It's a big book, and will take you through most of the .NET Framework, the BCL (Base Class Library) and the VB.NET language, such as program structure etc. The book will also give you good insight into different "types" of development with Visual Studio/.NET, such as WinForms development, ASP.NET development and other areas of general .NET-based development work, all from a VB.NET developer's perspective.

Note that there's a C# version of this same book if you're interested in C# at all.

Also note that this is the older edition of the book, and the most recent edition is Pro VB 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform

Answer 4

Programming Visual Basic 2008 by Tim Patrick is excellent.

If it really must be VB2005, try Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell