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Can anyone recommend a good Visual

Can anyone recommend a good Visual

Can anyone recommend a good Visual

(OP)
Can anyone recommend a good Visual Basic language book in order to create NX Journal? I see a few on amazon.

RE: Can anyone recommend a good Visual

Depends on your needs. If you are new to programming or VB, a VB beginner book will help you learn the basics of programming and the syntax of VB. If you already know a language, chances are NX supports it or something close (no need to learn VB just for journaling). You can use any .net language (VB and C# being the most popular choices), C++, Java, or python (NX 10).

If you are looking for a VB book, I list a few recommendations here:
http://nxjournaling.com/content/resources

The books on that page are a few years out of date, if the authors have put out an updated edition, it'll probably be just as good.

www.nxjournaling.com

RE: Can anyone recommend a good Visual

You could begin by reading chapter 4 of the "Getting Started with SNAP" guide that's part of the NX docs. It gives you a brief introduction to thew Visual Basic language in only 24 pages, and you already own it. Furthermore, it emphasises the VB techniques you're likely to need when writing SNAP and NX/Open code, and ignores all the stuff you probably won't need.

A lot of VB books and tutorials spend a lot of time talking about creation of user interfaces using Windows forms. This is usually not the preferred way to create a UI for use in NX (you typically would use Block Dialogs, instead).

My favorite VB book is "Visual Basic 2005: The Language" by Franceso Balena. As its name indicates, it's somewhat out of date, but I haven't found anything better.

RE: Can anyone recommend a good Visual

(OP)
Here's what I'm trying to achieve. The site NXjournaling.com has a script in VB so I want to adapt it to my needs hence sticking with the same language seems to make sense. I've only dabbled in programming but I've been able to make things work. I'll give the VB BASIC 2005 a try.

Thanks

RE: Can anyone recommend a good Visual

(OP)
Does Anyone have experience with this web page http://www.nxjournaling.com.
Does it go down often? I've had a few people try and open it without success.

Regards

RE: Can anyone recommend a good Visual

In my opinion, the content at NXJournaling is excellent.

For a long time, up-time was fine (in my experience).

But, over the last few months, it has been getting some spam, and I often can't log on -- it tells me "too many failed attempts, access from this IP address has been blocked". So, I have stopped using it. I just tried it, and it seems to be down.

In some ways, the Siemens PLM Community site is the best -- it's the only site that is heavily traveled by the Siemens GTAC support folks.

NX-specific things (like the NXJournaling site, the Community site, and the SNAP document) are much more helpful than generic VB stuff. There are large parts of VB that you'll never use with NX, and, conversely, becoming a VB expert won't make you an NX/Open or SNAP expert.

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