Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart: Make Your Move Now from Vb6 to VB 2005

This is a great first book in VB 2005. Easy to follow tutorial will help you get up and running in no time. I found this to be a good short tutorial. I think many will be pleased with the Visual Studio 2005 editions....

This book is a great guide for all seasoned Visual Basic 6 developers who want to get a nice taste of what to expect out of Visual Basic 2005. For those individuals who are strictly used to using Visual Basic 6, you will not be scared off by the author's analysis of the new features in 2005 such as things like the nice addition My Namespace. For people that have already made the switch to the Visual Basic.NET and were upset to see Edit and Continue vanish, you will be happy to see it's return in VB2005. This book is a nice guide even for individuals who are not familiar with Visual Basic, as Wei-Meng Lee gives a nice overview of things like a Stack and what Intellisense is in Visual Basic. For the low price of this book I think this is a great pickup for all people that use Visual Basic on a daily basis or want to learn more about the most popular RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool on the planet. Like the author's book "ASP.NET 2.0 : A Developer's Notebook", Mr. Lee gives the reader a nice overview of what to expect in VB2005 and he does so in a concise, clear manner. If you want to get a head start on what makes VB 2005 the best Visual Basic yet, you won't be disappointed in this book. **** RECOMMENDED

This is a solid and practical walkthrough of developing projects for VB.NET. It's not a reference, it certainly couldn't be in it's scant 200 pages. It teaches both the language and the framework by using example projects and walking through how they are built with a combination of code, illustrations and screenshots. The writing is good, if a bit terse. If you are a VB beginner and you are looking for a step by step walkthrough, avoid the mega super bible 1,000 page tomes, and try something like this book in combination with a refernce book on the language and another on the framework. Though you could probably skip the framework one and just use the MSDN.