Morning
Does anybody know how hard/easy it is to learn VB.NET ?
I am confident in writing lotusscript and would like to know how long it would take me to pick VB up ? It looks very simlar to lotus script… so i would of only thought a few months to get to grips with it …
Thanks
Subject: VB.NET
The language, the VS IDE and so on you can pick up in a matter of hours. The .NET Framework – all of the classes, properties and methods – will take quite a bit longer. There is a lot of “there” there.
Subject: RE: VB.NET
Thanks Stan
Can you recommend any good books … the MSDN site looks pretty good for learning… But i am not too sure which is the best path to take… ?
I think a start is to dowload the VS Express…
Subject: RE: VB.NET
Errm, shouldn’t we be encouraging Java and Eclipse?IMHO there’s no point learning a new language / IDE/ Framework unless you have a specific need and a good (business) case.
Subject: RE: VB.NET
I agree, but i figured it was time to have a look at what microsoft has on offer… Good for career 
No need for a business case when studying in your own time… unless i present my wife with one, hahahahaha…
Cheers
Subject: RE: VB.NET
Erm, no. We should be encouraging any technology that allows us to provide solutions to our customers. Frankly, if your customers have a MS desktop standard, you can do more thingsfaster and more easily (and at a lower hardware expense) with .NET than with Java and Eclipse – including integrating Notes/Domino with other COM-accessible apps. I suppose you could argue that your shop should only run apps with an available Java API, but my job was usually to write apps that worked and did what they were supposed to, not to force platform migrations.