How do I write Visual Basic code?

[Macro Mike]

Hello - as an absolute beginner with Excel and Word Macros, I am very
interested in purchasing any books that teach the Visual Basic code language
/ commands but have not found any after phoning several large book stores,
nor do their seem to be such books when I have made queries on line. If there
are such books - especially any books that give the translation for the code
for a beginner to use - it would be great to receive the titles of such books
so I may order them.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Michael Eggins

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen[FP MVP]]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764540726/qid=1116914592/
sr=8-6/ref=pd_csp_6/104-9040160-6111133?v=glance&s=books&n=507846


Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Hi Michael,

As (you are) an absolute beginner, I would recommend learning the latest
"flavor" of Visual Basic, Visual Basic.Net. The following link is NOT a a
place where you can buy a book, but a link to the complete authoritative
Microsoft online VB.Net language reference. You should find it
comprehensive. It also contains quite a bit of sample code, articles, and
tutorials.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ry/en-us/vblr7/html/vborivblangreftopnode.asp

If you prefer, you can also find the VB 6 and VBScript references on the
same web site.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Sometimes you eat the elephant.
Sometimes the elephant eats you.

 

[clintonG]

Just what do you intend to use a programming language to achieve?
Certain variants of the Visual Basic language are optimized for certain
tasks and generally speaking...

VBS(cript) is used for ASP (Active Server Pages) and Windows OS maintenance
and management.

VB(for)A(pplications) runs inside an application such as Excel, Word, and
other applications that have licensed VBA from Microsoft.

Visual Basic is used to create stand-alone programs that are installed
locally and from the desktop.

Visual Basic.NET is used to create stand-alone programs that are installed
locally run from the desktop or may run on web servers as the case may be.

If you are going to learn to program the first thing you need to learn is
how to clearly communicate your thoughts, especially when talking to humans
who are much more forgiving than parsers and compilers ;-)

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