Good morning all....
My first post, so being a, relatively, polite Brit I will introduce myself before launching into any 'real' questions.
Briefly, then...
Been using VB since VB DOS all the way up to VB6 where I stayed until a few weeks ago. I was using LOTS of sticking plasters to get VB6 doing what I wanted (Lots of API use, 3rd party stuff to add Internationalization etc).
I have a few commercial software products out there and my typical work is 50% coding and 50% Engineering (Specifically Finite Element Analysis .... stress analysis)
I had reviewed .NET at various times and found it a little 'clunky' in it's earlier versions. This does not seem to be the case with VB2008.
My major problem is that I am self taught and, worse, work on my own. This means that I have picked up some bad practices, no doubt, and I am keen to 'get things on the right track' with VB2008.
To my shame, I have avoided Classes and the whole OOP thing so I am now going up a massive learning curve... good fun though :-)
I could carry on using VB2008 as if it were VB6 but I am NOT going to do this.... So, I am sure I will be asking a lot of newbie type questions!
I think mostof my questions will relate to 'best practice' and not the 'how do you change the background colour of that Textbox' type of thing. I am hoping that this forum has lots of peeps coding commercially and not just hobbyists????
Ok, thanks for reading and here goes....
Kind regards
Julian
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