I was just curious as to what online resources, if any, you all suggest for tips/tricks/hints and guides for VB.NET?

Thanks!

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Anyone? I've been looking all over the place, but there's nothing that really answers my needs.

Maybe if I can explain what I need - What I'm looking for is a resource that teaches you how to use VB.NET but in a bottom up style . . . Sort of how a good programming course would be structured.

There are enough differences between VB.NET and VB 6 (which I THOUGHT I was pretty good at . . . turns out I've forgotten a TON!) so I'm sitting here trying to figure out SWITCHING FORMS and going nuts! How's that for butting your head into a wall?

Anyway, I'm hoping someone knows of at least ONE web page that'll be able to help me out without confusing me even worse.

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Im in college right now and takign the course. Its pretty simple with the exception of a couple things. I have all the tutorials we use, but they dont explain much since you need the book.

The book was uh..65 bucks and explains things pretty well. As for the web, well I havent looked much..

I can help ya (along with others), depends on what you need. So far we gotten up to how to create random numbers and such.

Switching forms? Ive never heard of that...(probably hasnt been taught yet)

Heres one from my bookmarks-http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/NET/vbNet.html
EDIT- More
http://www.devcity.net/(6)NET-Newbie.aspx

Yup, I remember paying out the nose for those books . . . just wish I would have held on to mine . . . Granted, they would be 9 years old now, but still, that's better than NO books. . .

So, what I'm attempting to do right now is laying out the control flow for the F@H installer.

I have 8 forms for the installer (Welcome screen, license scree, the usual installer pages). On the bottom of most of them will be the standard Back, Next and cancel buttons. I've been able to sus out how to summon up a message box when I hit the Cancel button that asks if you want to quit, then kills the program if you say yes.

What I'm working on is getting the Next button to hide the current form and show the next form.

What's going on is that the second form DOES show, but the first form isn't hiding the way the code says it should. I've tried a couple of different things (setting form.hide(), form.close()) and am getting no where.

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And the issue goes away . . . you know, I love this. I mess around using 8 slightly different solutions from 8 different web pages and I suddenly come across one that's not only less cluttery and lo and behold, it actually WORKS, to boot!!

So, I'm going to go, get the navigation working then get back to mapping out each and every global variable I'll need so I can feed info across the installer.

Yup, sometimes tripping over the answer just hurts.

The answer, by the way, was apparently to use the Me.hide() instruction. Apparently telling the form you are in to hide by name just doesn't cut it. Go figure.

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Why not use Me.close?

Quote: Originally Posted by Nerdz Why not use Me.close?

That's a good question. I'm going to test that and see what happens.

(5 minutes later)

Ok, I tested that and it seems that command will close the program itself.

So, I'll stick with just hiding the form, as I'm not overly worried about long term memory clogging. Simple 8 forms and some basic file manipulation won't take up too much.