Re-Write Completed!
A few weeks ago, I announced that I was starting a project to completely rewrite the Visual Studio 2005 Express tutorial. Today, I'm announcing that the re-write, at least, is done.
Thanks to all of you who left feedback in the comments!
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition is a completely free development system that you can download from Microsoft. And it's really a great system. Unless you work for a big DP shop or you have some pretty sophisticated needs, you will never miss the relatively few things Microsoft didn't put into VB Express.
Since a lot of About Visual Basic readers are new programmers who want to learn Visual Basic .NET for the first time, I decided to make a "From the Ground Up" course in VB Express the "flagship" tutorial for this site. To make that decision a living reality, I'm planning to add more content and update the content that is already there on a regular basis. In this latest re-write, for example, I expanded the length from 9 to 11 segments. Errors were corrected and content was added at the same time.
Although the course is designed for new programmers, I've put the latest Framework 2.0 ideas into it. (If Microsoft makes a Framework 3.0 version of Visual Basic Express, I'll revise it again!) Some of the more experienced programmers might even learn something too. (Did you know that if you use Option Strict On in your code, it will actually run faster because the compiler won't generate any type conversion code?)
But the most valuable source of ideas and improvements continues to be the people who let me know what they like, didn't like, or want to see added to the tutorial. Give it a try and let me know in the comments!
Thanks for the tutorial. I am a unix person getting into Windows programming (on my own) and needed a kick start. I programmed with BASIC 20-some years ago and after using Visual Basic 5 to write a few things a few years ago, felt this would be a good first step.
thanks Dan’s for tutorials…
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