Got a 50% raise but have to learn VB in the next month. Any good places to start?

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@B00mB00m lol true. Not by choice though

Had a guy graduate from school and started in our IT department as the backup programmer. After two months of being dropped into VBA, when that was not his background, he is now the go to guy for it. He told me he did much googling.

Get a Udemy course or use Lynda. Works for me all the time for learning new stuff

A nice big bottle of Jack Daniels

You could learn C# instead, and decompile the CIL back to VB. Problem solved 😎

If you're familiar with C# then it's just a syntax difference really (no hate from the experts please 😉). Most of Microsofts documentation has examples for both VB and c# so you'll be okay on that front. Telerik has a c# to VB converter that is free to use. Don't use it for everything but it's nice to figure out some of VB's syntax quirks. Other than that, if you're learning winforms or console apps then books like VB in easy steps are great to get a grip on the syntax and workflow. If youre going to be devving in wpf or asp then you might be better off learning it in c# then attempting it in VB just because there's way more documentation.

Once you learn the syntax, you'll have no trouble reading c# documentation and using it for VB.

VB or VB.NET ?

@BuggyBrain
I was about to comment that I doubt it would be classic VB at this point in time but my last job was porting/remaking/updating/improving old vb6 apps to c#/VB.net/wpf. We still had some legacy vb6 devs on the team maintaining programs that we couldn't afford the time to change.

Try doin it with autocomlete rather than whith tutorials. Ul learn it more intensively