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What book on learning VB.Net programming from scratch would you recommend?

Ive looked at 2 books: (But Im open for others)
"Visual Basic .Net for Dummies"
"Visual Basic .Net Step by Step"

"...for dummies" doesnt seem to include any information on databases (Or am I mistaken?), which youll need in just about any program. So that book is ruled out.

"...Step by Step" seems to be a good book and it includes a CD. Have somone read/reading this book?

The best would be a book that gives you assignments along the way, The best way to learn is by doing. Is there someone out there who knows about such books?
 
3 step process!

Step 1 - Go to amazon.com and read reviews there.
Step 2 - Go to book store and browse through them.
Step 3 - Buy whichever book you liked the most.

:)
 
I would overall agree with Wyrds post. Not every one of us learns the same way by the same presentation and so you have to search out that which allows you to learn the best.

I am relatively new to VB.NET myself and am still finding resources to help me learn my way around. I will provide you with the information here just so you can see what is available.

After looking the books over that I could find on line at Amazon.com, I selected Beginning VB.NET as it seemed for me to be the best all around book to get me started. I had not programmed in VB at all before and this book doesnt presume that you have, so there is no comparison of VB6 to VB.NET or anything like that. You might want a book that does the comparisons though if you are a VB6 programmer wanting to make the transition to VB.NET.

I am also finding the VB.NET Resource Kit to be of great help to me. You can find a link to it here at this posting. I am also finding the VB.NET area of the microsoft site to be of a big help as well. Here is just one of the many links with information that can be of use to learning VB.NET

Hope this helps you out
 
I got a learn vb.net in 24h and How to Upgrate from vb6,
The last one was great to campare commands, but now im thingking of buying a reference. so it depend more on how you intend to use the book
 
I personally just got "Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET" & "Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Language Reference" both of wich are proving to be excellent guides.

(And got them both from amazon for $10 :D)
 
Wow, what a deal you got on those books.

I looked them both over on amazon and thought I would include a link here to one of them since I can see how a lot of users might want to investigate it. VB6 to VB.NET

I realize I shortened the book title by a bunch but I think everyone would be able to follow it. Given all the VB6 code there is out there I can well imagine this would be a helpful guide to have around.
 
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