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I have received quite a few messages and emails lately from people interested in getting into Pocket PC programming. Well, today there is 3 opportunities to participate in an online chat with .NETCF and Visual Studio for Devices Teams. They are asking that people participate and ask "tough questions". hmmm.. can't think of anything...cough..VGA development... Smart Device Programming with Visual Studio .NET 2003 So what's that 'Smart Device Application' project type is all about? Please join the members of the .NET Compact Framework and Visual Studio product groups in this live chat regarding the .NET Compact Framework and the Smart Device Programming features of VS.NET. Please come prepared to ask the tough questions! May 13, 2004
10:00 - 11:00 A.M. Pacific time
1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Eastern time
17:00 - 18:00 GMT
Hurph! I'm still trying to get to grips with VB6, I thought it would be a good start as there is a lot of info around for it. Then maybe I could move over to VB.net when I felt comfortable. Then move to PPC programming C+, I've heard is the best language).
Not as easy as that though, at my present rate it'll take me at least 5 years.
Seems there might be too much info about on VB6 to search thorough and not enough of my time.
If anybody has some recommendations on crash courses in Vb programming, please feel free to let me know (bearing in mind I know very little, I can juat about set up a database e.g. Access, with a Vb front end). I'd luv to work towards an MCAD in vb.net.
__________________ Afterism (n) - A concise, clever statement you don\'t think of until too late.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
If anybody has some recommendations on crash courses in Vb programming, please feel free to let me know (bearing in mind I know very little, I can juat about set up a database e.g. Access, with a Vb front end). I'd luv to work towards an MCAD in vb.net.
You could start where I did a few years back: Visual Basic 6 for Dummies (for Windows) and grab the Visual Basic 6 Database Programming for Dummies deal with it. It sounds ridiculous I know but Wallace Wang is an entertaining writer who really gave me the programming 'bug.'
Don't dis the dummies series! I have about 8 or 10 programming ones at home (Perl, Java, Visual Studio, Flash, Java Game Programming, Direct X Game Programming, OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming to name a few). Perhaps my favorite is "Golf for Dummies" by Gary McCord.
While some people give the series a bad rap, I've determined that they are the people that haven't read one of the books - they are great to get a kick-start on something and I've only had one bad experience.
Yup! read the VB6 4 Dummies, presently reading VBA for dummies. I'm getting in to it so much I'm thinking about getting myself a pacifier.
__________________ Afterism (n) - A concise, clever statement you don\'t think of until too late.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
The conversation went pretty well. Official transcripts should be available sometime today at this location: http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/recent.asp
I have some 'home-brew' transcripts you can look at here: Part 1 Part 2
I got online about 7 minutes late so the home-brew version is incomplete.
They are asking that people participate and ask "tough questions". hmmm.. can't think of anything...cough..VGA development... 
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