need a good beginner book

[RachelKC]

Hello:

I'm coming from a VB 6 background. I have purchased Visual Studio 2008 now and want to learn to program windows programs in C#. Everything is new and strange to me. Can someone point me to a good beginner book that has samples or walkthroughs in it like showing which controls to use for what and how to use them? I have some good books on web applications but need one now on programs.

Thanks in advance,

Rachel

[Phil Weber]

A Google search for "beginner windows forms book" found this page, which recommends several books: http://blogs.msdn.com/simonmu/archive/2006/08/11/695714.aspx

Also, please post future questions in the .NET forum, not the ASP.NET forum (ASP.NET is for Web applications). Thanks!

[RachelKC]

Hello:
Sorry I posted wrong place.

I'm not sure what kind of books I really need to be looking for. What I want to do is develop a program that works with data files like stock and commodity futures prices. I would be working with that data. So should I be looking for a beginner book on databases and SQL or Linq or C# or an overall beginner book on Visual Studio 2008? There are so many types of books out there it makes my head spin!

I'm not even sure which type of book to be looking for! :o Could you at least steer me in the direction I should be looking?

Thanks,
Rachel

[Hack]

You have to decide what you are going to use for a front end. That isn't something we can do.

Who are you going to be developing this application for?

[Steve36445]

Hi,


I am disabled myself so don't use books, however I find this site very good and they advertise a book based on the site.

http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/NET/vbNet.html


Hope this helps,

Steve

[Steve36445]

Hi,

I notice you are a vb6 user. Ifound the following very useful


http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kehz1dz1.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172558.aspx

or add "for vb6 users to your help search string.

Steve

[RachelKC]

You have to decide what you are going to use for a front end. That isn't something we can do.

Who are you going to be developing this application for?

Hello and thank you for responding.

I am using Visual Studio 2008. I wanted the program to work for XP or Vista and I guess anything else if that were possible like Linux & Mac.

It would be for our customers. We have a small advisory service and I would like to be able to offer them this application.

Rachel

[RachelKC]

Hi,

I notice you are a vb6 user. Ifound the following very useful


http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kehz1dz1.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172558.aspx

or add "for vb6 users to your help search string.

Steve

Thank you for that.

I did the original program in VB6 (using DAO) but now it won't convert to the Visual Studio 2008. But I wanted to change over to C# anyway so this gives me a good learning opportunity to do that.

Just not sure if I need to concentrate on SQL, ADO.Net or something else for this type of program.

Rachel

[RachelKC]

Hi,


I am disabled myself so don't use books, however I find this site very good and they advertise a book based on the site.

http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/NET/vbNet.html


Hope this helps,

Steve

Hello Steve: Wow, that's a good link. Thank you for that! I will dig into it.

Best,
Rachel

[Hack]

Just not sure if I need to concentrate on SQL, ADO.Net or something else for this type of program. If you are going to use databases, of any kind, ADO.NET is something you should be comfortable with. It is simply the technology of connecting to a database from your program. It isn't a language that you would write the program in (like VB.NET or C# would be)

[RachelKC]

If you are going to use databases, of any kind, ADO.NET is something you should be comfortable with. It is simply the technology of connecting to a database from your program. It isn't a language that you would write the program in (like VB.NET or C# would be)

Thanks Hack:

If I need to upgrade a program written using DAO, by translating that part of it to ADO, is there a good source for that?

Rachel

[Hack]

There is no upgrading from DAO to ADO, and definately no upgrading from DAO to ADO.NET

It requires rewriting the code from scratch (not a big deal though)

[Phil Weber]

You may find these sites helpful:

http://dotnet.sys-con.com/node/46609
http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorials/AdoDotNet/Lesson01.aspx

[RachelKC]

There is no upgrading from DAO to ADO, and definately no upgrading from DAO to ADO.NET

It requires rewriting the code from scratch (not a big deal though)

I misspoke. I meant, re-writing.

Rachel

[RachelKC]

You may find these sites helpful:

http://dotnet.sys-con.com/node/46609
http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorials/AdoDotNet/Lesson01.aspx

Thanks much!

Rachel