I am perhaps a little slow (stupid). Deal gently with me!
I have loads of nice simple examples of every thing I learned to do in VB 6, this meant that when I had forgotten how to do something I had done before I did not need to look through miles of code.
So, now I have downloaded Visual Basic Express the MyVB (originally some VB2 much VB4 then updated via 5 and 6 with new regular new examples) now I am trying to update to VB express.
Ok so I get errors. If I go to MENU + HELP + "How do I" help I get online help at this URL:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/756acb4f-6bc6-422a-8133-b241e5003a93.aspx this works if I click in the left hand display pane I get online links.
But I want to look up say CAST in the left hand pane under tab index the right hand pane URL goes to
res://C:\WINDOWS\System32\shdoclc.dll/syntax.htm
gives
Page not found in the right hand display area with the following details
Open the MS.VSExpressCC.v80 home page, and then look for links to the information you want.
If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly.
How can I get help Where I can search for specific items in the index
If I click MS.VSExpressCC.v80 or type help://MS.VSExpressCC.v80 I get cannot find server.
I understand res://C:\WINDOWS\System32\shdoclc.dll/syntax.htm should be a local link and I do not have it - how do I correct this
PS Will any text book such as "Beginning VB.Net" help me with VB express
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Rigel
I don't know of any online sources, but a quick scan of Amazon shows there are several books available that cover object-oriented programming with Visual Basic 2005. Transitioning from procedural programming to object-oriented programming is a big hurdle conceptually - I found Deborah Kurata's book on "Doing Objects in Visual Basic" especially helpful, but it doesn't look like ity's been updated yet for VB 2005.
Hope this helps,
Steve Hoag
Visual Basic Express
Mahyar
Sean McKenna
I need an online source that explains how to write code using the classes - Process, Math, etc. I know how Todo the Procedural stuff - For Next, If Then Etc. I can Read the Pretty Code but Can't Write It..... Thanks
Omer van Kloeten
Thanks Steve. I'm Gonna give these books A Hard Look.... I did the Tutorial - the Visual Basic Guided Tour...Which I think you wrote and it was Excellant.... After I finished it I thought I had the world by the Tail until I Tried to write with the Framework Classes Like the Pro written Examples... I fell on my face and am still laying on the Ground..... It's interesting as you stated to see this Transition is a Quantum Leap...... It seems like I am the only one in this Forum having this Problem,,,,,,
A. Dachauer
The Help collection that ships with the Express editions is a subset of the full MSDN Library. As long as you stay within the Table of Contents for the Express Library you are accessing local topics and you shouldn't have any problems. If you select links outside of the TOC (for example, from the Index), you may be choosing topics that are not part of the Express Help collection, and you will get the "Topic not found" page.
Links to topics outside of the Express collection are not supported, however you can still get to these topics using Search. See "I Can't Access a Help Topic" in te following Troubleshooting topic: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172574(en-US,VS.80).aspx
If you are familiar with VB 6, there are a series of topics that are designed to help you learn the differences between VB 6 and Visual Basic 2005. Look for any of the topic titles that end in "for Visual Basic 6.0 Users" - here is the starting point:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kehz1dz1(en-US,VS.80).aspx
If you are looking for a book to help you learn, pretty much any book on Visual Basic 2005 applies to Visual Basic Express as well, however there might be slight differences in the descriptions of the IDE. Make sure that the book covers Visual Basic 2005, not Visual Basic .NET.
Hope this helps,
Steve Hoag
Visual Basic Express