I made this thread for all programmers starting their adventure on VB.NET.
Please post relevant and sensible questions regarding VB.NET,
share your knowledge and expertise, share codes and techniques.
Post question on HOW TOs:
How to do this or that, ill supply bits of code to accomplish basic tasks.
Ill be posting series of samples leading to complete applications,
your suggestions are encouraged.
These samples will contain codes relevant to other tasks as well.
Platform = VS2003 to VS2010
i suggest learn and master the VB.NET IDE first before asking questions, so that we can talk on the same page.
Topics:
VB.NET Winforms (not Web Applications)
ADO.NET as applied in VB.NET
Crystal Reports on VB.NET
SQLServer as used in VB.NET
MSAccess as used in VB.NET
Classes
UserControls
Technologies:
Serial - like using SMS, Barcode and other hardware
TCP/IP - chat applications, sockets, internet applications
MSMQ - message queuing
Remoting - executing assemblies in other computer
WebServices - using webservices in windows forms
Multithreading - executing more than 1 process at the same time
Suggested Third Party Tools:
DevXPress 2009 Free Edition
SQLServer 2005 Express Edition
Suggested references:
http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/net/vbnet.html
http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/VB/CatalogVB.htm
I currently use Visual Studio 2008 only, but basic codes will apply to all versions
Please do not ask for a complete system,
instead use the codes and assistance that you will find here
to build your own system.
***Can somebody suggest to the moderators to make this thread sticky if you find it useful in your studies or work.
Lets share knowledge so that we can be a more flexible and well rounded programmer. Be it for school or work.
Links:
First Post: Populating DataGridView using MSAccess Database
Second Post : Basic VB.NET MSAccess Tutorial
SQLServer Sample