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- mrblogadise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0fill in the blanks:
Visual Basic is to programming as _________ is to __________. - motionblur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Visual Basic is to programming as digg is to Slashdot.
- motionblur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't even know what that means, but it's the first thing I thought of.
- Alaerus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Worth a download, for sure. 15.9 mb shouldn't take too long. Thanks for the info, +digg.
- SweetsGreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm still waiting for the hard copy of this that MSFT was supposed to send me after I sat thru a bunch of boring webcasts
- BwanaDik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You saw it first. You win the prize!
- foohookups311, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is a great resource. I will be sure to use it when I am creating my senior project for college.
- zalgadis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0as a relatively recent graduate with a bs in cs and nearing my master's in cs, i can tell u, with some surprise to me, that a lot of companies looking to fill programming positions are looking particularly for people with .net experience. out of all the jobs i looked at, for entry level positions, about 95% wanted .net developers. the other 5% wanted various database programming skills or xml/html skills. vb .net may not be the "best" language to use, but for applications running on windows, it's pretty good. a company that wants an application doesn't have to install different programs to use an application developed in vb .net, and creating gui's is a lot more straight forward and easily modified compared to a gui created in plain java. so is vb .net a good language to use? well, ask linux users if linux is better than windows. the answer is of course yes, but how many people out there that use linux and linux only could get a job as a secretary that required a decent amount of knowledge of windows (access, outlook, word...). my point is that just because something isn't better, doesn't mean it's not worthwhile. i am currrently interviewing for a position that creates .net applications. they create business intelligence systems that involve data mining/knowledge discovery using olap theories/products. now i have taken classes on just that, but they care more if i can hold my own in .net. so i would highly recommend to anyone looking to get a job in the cs field to learn vb .net and learn it quickly. when i started my bs, many people, students/teachers/advisors, suggested that i focus on learning java as a primary language. well, i went the vb .net route because i had learned it in high school, and i knew it was easy. so here i am, vb .net proficient and about to get a job utilizing it, whereas everyone i know that focused on java are not using java in their jobs. so should you just learn vb .net? of course not! but is it necessary to learn? once again ehh, no... but it is an extremely useful language to know when you go and actually apply for a job.
- peerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cost: Your soul
- haackers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Thing is 'Nautikus' c and c++ is just as easy to learn as VB and way more powerful!!!! VB should just die!!!!!
- inrev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There is a big difference between VB6 and VB.NET, while the syntax is similar the framework is vastly different. VB.NET is a very powerful tool for RAD windows and web app development, if you want more contol go with c#.
- Glass_Onion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good find, I'm not one to go on Microsofts site and need something to help me with my visual programing class in college. Though I think my college uses 6.0 not 2005 I can't see their being to much difference.
- MetalliMyers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is :old:
- Nautikus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thing is moto55, VB is a good language to learn. It's easy and it provides the groundwork for languages like C++ :)
- moto55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hope no VB programs take offense to this but spend the time learning a real programming language like C or C++.
- moto55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0damn i knew i would make a mistake. programmers**
- Kikkoman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Ermm.. Haven't I seen this months ago?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Thanks
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