Re: Visual Studio Professional Edition purchase
- From: "Cor Ligthert[MVP]" <Notmyfirstname@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:03:44 +0200
I write it often like this.
Visual Basic for Net and C# are the children from VB6 and C++
One has some more from the father and one has some more from the mother.
There is also a child which is only a child from C++ that is C++ managed code.
In the latter three you are in fact creating forms and things like that almost exact in the same way as you did with VB6.
Beside that there is in Visual Studio the original C++ as it was in Visual Studio 6 using MFC.
It is not my goal to start a discussion, so if you should go to a C language is your own decission and it is never wrong to learn both languages.
You can see VB and C# as a daughter and a son, which one is the daughter and which one is the son I leave to your own expirience.
Cor
"Helpful person" <rrllff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:c3be93e4-30fb-4ca7-8932-38ed7fd20f68@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am considering buying visual studio and need some advice as to
whether this is really what I need. First a little about me and what
I am looking for.
I am an engineer with a lot of computing experience (not professional,
self taught). I grew up with Fortran and progressed to Visual Basic 6
and HTML (if you can call HTML programming). I know enough about
object oriented programming to know that my knowledge is very
limited. With VB 6 I have created objects at run time, menus, used
error trapping, API calls, created graphics and input / output in the
form of files and printer. I have not used databases (do not think I
need to). With VB 6 it is easy to create and layout forms which I
find very nice, although once designed I generally prefer to populate
my forms at run time for versatility.
VB 6 is an old program and has been superceded by VB.net My knowledge
of the various flavors of C are zero. I think it's about time I got
away from VB and learnt to use C. My present belief is that this
should not be too difficult.
Here are my questions:
I understand that Visual Studio includes the following:
Visual C++
Visual C#
Visual Basic.net
Is this correct?
Does Visual C++ and Visual C# include an easy way to create forms (by
which I mean windows).
I find the VB 6 online help adequate to do anything I need. I assume
that is true for the other languages. Is that correct?
What is the main difference between C++ and C#?
I understand that Visual Studio wraps all the languages together in a
development environment. Is there a significant learning curve to
understand this? (I am a quick learner, usually stumped when I have
difficulty understanding unfamiliar jargon).
Is there a good book that is recommended? I hate the beginner books
(although I might need one). I have previously used one from Head
Start for Visual Basic which I liked as a starter book (except for its
verbosity). Any suggestions?
All help is appreciated.
Thanks
www.richardfisher.com
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