hello guys i thought about starting to learn vb. i got experience with other languages, i only need some help to begin:
where to dl vb6 standard or another good editor?
what other tools will i need?
any good tutorials?
thnx in advance

You can't download VB 6 from many places anymore. It is an old old version. Everything VB is going into .NET. You can download VB.NET 2005 express edition from Microsoft's website.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 - Express Editions

They are free and you can download whatever languages you are interested in including VB.NET. It is all you need to get started programming.

They will work just fine for you and your learning process. Then you can get books on VB.NET, tutorials online here at DIC, even ask questions in our VB.NET forum if you get stuck.

Enjoy!

This post has been edited by Martyr2: 18 Nov, 2007 - 01:30 PM

You can still buy legit copies of VB6 or Visual Studio 6 all over the place online.

If you go shopping, shop carefully! Since it's a discontinued item, some places have VS6 on sale for less than you'd pay for the standalone VB6.

For example... this place sells it at its original price of $935 (ouch! considering VS2005 pro is nearly 300 bucks cheaper there)
http://www.marketwarehouse.com/micvisstudpr.html

In my opinion, MS made a mistake when they named their new product "VB". For one thing, it makes it incredibly hard to find information on their site, as well as others.

For another, the beginners have a hard time determining exactly why the code they just downloaded doesn't work at all in their IDE... I mean, after all, it *is* VB, right?

MS doesn't help the matter, leaving their obsolete dotNet samples available for download.

They really should take some time, get off the beta bandwagon for a while and write some decent sample code, using their latest development tools.

thnx 4 help guys ill do my research. VB is really nice as u can make standalone apps without so much coding, which is nice for small apps. shame on ms that they stopped it. /close topic

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