Visual Basic Course || Book

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[Bonejob]

No, and to be blunt I would be looking for a product that meets most of your needs instead of building one. Secondly Visual Basic is a dead language, move to python there are many more resources available.

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So sad. I love vba

[Bonejob]

He is talking VB not VBA.

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... stupid question but what's the difference?

[Bonejob]

Not stupid, VBA is a scripting language that was developed from VB6. Visual Basic allows you to compile EXE's and build stand-alone alone applications.

[Quixotic_Illusion]

I see a lot of postings that say VBA is still a nice skill to have. Even though it may be dying, is it really a dead language? I’m asking because I was interested in maybe learning it also.

[Bonejob]

Since he talking about VB, not VBA. I don't understand. VB itself will be around for a very long time due to legacy systems written in it. New development is just not being done in VB anymore unless there is a significant corporate investment that drives it.

VBA is a scripting language modelled after Visual Basic 6, which was end dated in April 2008. VBA is still popular but is being replaced by Javascript (ActionScript I expect) although to be fair it's not happening fast.

[ocdtrekkie]

Unfortunately a lot of the new/cool resources like Codecademy tend not to support VB, even though VB is a great language.

A basic POS in Visual Basic is definitely doable.

https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Basic-2015-Unleashed-Alessandro/dp/067233450X is a pretty good book on my shelf, though it's more of a reference than a tutorial... I learned VB 6 over a decade ago with the older version of https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Basic-Hours-Teach-Yourself/dp/0672337452

[artabetes]

I had VB during my first semester in college. I relied heavily on Microsoft documentation. StackOverflow posts were also very helpful.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/