starting with vb

I want to start programming in vb but i dont know where to start and if i need anything. Any help would be great.

Just a quick run through google got me this:- http://www.vbtutor.net/vbtutor.html

If you are in need of a good book about it:

Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Step by Step by Micheal Halvorson (MS Press) is a very good one to start with.

Try w3schools VBS school: http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/default.asp

you will need an external program. You could try downloading one, if you want to know where and how PM me…

I suggest using Visual Basic. Basic is 'old' if you ask me. VB is mostly used, plus you can use the .NET Framework with VB which is a plus in some cases ;)

The_Cell wrote: If you are in need of a good book about it:

Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Step by Step by Micheal Halvorson (MS Press) is a very good one to start with.

Halvorson's book is good for learning the ropes. I wouldn't spend my money on it, though; just read it in your local bookstore. :-) Really, the best way to learn VB is to jump right in and do stuff. Play with forms, buttons, comboboxes, etc. … play with the properties of those objects, double-click each one and see what happens. Really, if you want to learn how to do ANYTHING in VB.Net, there are a million sites that have pretty much already done it; just google what you want to do.

If you read something and learn about a new object… but don't know how to use it, just type the object followed by a "."; this will show you all of the object's properties and methods, and they're pretty self-explanatory once you've learned the basics. Make sure you import the object's namespace or reference it with its namespace, though.

Oh, and Basic is weak compared to VB or VB.Net. Heck, even VBScript kills Basic. VB.Net is the way to go if you're developing just for yourself; if you're doing it on a larger scale and worry about compability with pre-.Net environments, then go with VB6.