Need to Learn VB

[kxa]

I need to write a few stand alone engineering related programs and was wondering how to get started. Thanks.

 

[PeterCharles]

Years ago I was given a copy of VB3.
I created my first programmes by reading the help file.
Later I bought a book.
Then I Googled "VB tutorials" and "VB code".
Then I found VB specific discussion forums where I could ask for help.

 

[Regg]

kxa,

You can start by downloading VB.net express (free download) from Microsoft. There was a free tutorial available a few months back. That is were I would start.

Regards,

Regg

 

[Standing]

kxa,
Sign up for a collage class on VB. Then in the mean time you can start by what PeterCharles and Regg said, which is a good idea. There are a lot of SolidWorks VB programs out there. It is nice to learn structured programming language from someone who teaches it. Who knows, maybe you will be writing a lot of these.


Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP4.0
PDM Works, Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400

 

[johnwm]

Do note that VB.NET express and VB2005 are .NET languages and bear little similarity with VB3 through VB6.

VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) which is used as an extender/macro language in many full-blown apps is much closer to VB6, and the .NET languages may not help with VBA

In summary choose whether you want to produce full-blown .NET enabled applications (use VB.NET / 2005) or whether you want to extend functionality of existing apps (use VBA/VB6)

Good Luck
johnwm
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