Updating vb6/vba knowledge - too late to teach old dog new tricks?

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I feel like I've been left behind. I've been happiliy programming in VBA,
some VB6, and VB Scripting with ASP. Lately, when I search the web for code
snippets, it's harder and harder to NOT find something to do with dot net.

So, this old dog is ready to learn some new tricks. But I have no idea
where to start! Does it matter if I start with 2008 or 2005? What is the
express version? Is there a great learning book that I can start with?
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  • RE: Updating vb6/vba knowledge - too late to teach old dog new tricks?
    ... "gkbrenne" wrote: ... some VB6, and VB Scripting with ASP. ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb)
  • Re: Why to use VBA?
    ... all I am saying is its time to start introducing new features in .net that will do the same thing VBA does and give the market time to accept it without dropping VBA as you said executives are conservative to change VBA! ... The fact is that VB.NET is sufficiently incompatible with the previous version of VB (VB6, from which VBA is derived) that for all practical purposes an upgrade wasn't possible, you had to rewrite the code more or less from scratch. ... The automated code converters provided by Microsoft were next to useless, and the fact that Microsoft went and changed lots of names of objects and properties meant that late-binding code wouldn't work without rewrite because it couldn't be automatically converted at all. ... Lots of people asked Microsoft what that reason was, with regard to that and dozens of other changes to the language. ...
    (microsoft.public.word.vba.general)
  • RE: .NET Scripting IDE Integration
    ... namespaces you mentioned for compiling and running .NET code at runtime. ... We were able to integrate VBA into a .NET app to reproduce the current ... As for pure .NET runtime scripting support, ... > found the following namespace which contains some components and interfaces ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.general)
  • Re: Change Save Dir in IE (VBA)
    ... WScript.Shell object - can this be done in VBA? ... I need some help with automating Internet Explorer using VBA. ... in Excel I would use the ChDir ... the normally unsafe for scripting WScript.Shell ...
    (microsoft.public.excel.programming)
  • RE: .NET Scripting IDE Integration
    ... As for the runtime script engine in .NET, as far as I know, VBA is not ... As for pure .NET runtime scripting support, ... | Thread-Topic: .NET Scripting IDE Integration ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.general)