Visual Basic

General Information To learn about VB from the company that created it, visit Microsoft's Visual Basic page at  at msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic. According to many VB programmers, one of the most useful sites is Gary Beene's Visual Basic Information Center. This site includes links, articles, and downloads. Another Web page specially targeted at beginning VB programmers is members.tripod.com/~vkliew/VBtutor.html and a more thorough tutorial site can be found at www.vbtutor.net/vbtutor.html

You can learn to program by downloading a Visual Basic Self-Study Tutorial from TegoSoft, Inc., at http://www.tego.com. Just scroll down the page until you find the correct link. You'll find many other tutorials at the Visual Basic Tutorials page (www.imt.net/~joe/matt/program/vb/Tutorials). For news about the latest VB components and programming techniques, programmers like the DevX site (www.devx.com/vb). The Visual Basic Programmer's Journal  and Visual Studio Magazine are the standard paper-based reference resources for Visual Basic programmers, and you can find links to articles from these publications at visualstudiomagazine.com. Additional online Visual Basic magazines can be found by visiting the About.com Visual Basic magazine page.

Additional Links Visual Basic Web Directory The Visual Basic Web Directory bills itself as "the definitive index for visual basic web resources". Among a vast array of resources, you can find information for beginners, tutorials and how-tos, source code and files, tips and tricks, VBScript resources, information on Internet programming, career information, and links to help sites. Visual basic code samples can be found at www.arcatapet.net/vb.cfm.