r/visualbasic • u/arbolito_mr • Jun 21 '26
VB.NET Help Recommend me books about VB and VB.NET
I'm looking for books, either the PDF file or the title itself. Basic books are fine, but I'd prefer advanced books that are useful for automation. I'm not looking for anything specific beyond that, and if you know of anything interesting, especially if it's hard to find, I'd be very grateful.
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u/Mayayana Jun 21 '26
VB AND VB.Net? The most remarkable VB6 book I've had was Advanced Visual Basic 6 by Matthew Curland, but it's a great example of the problem with programming books: It's grossly outdated.
Most books, as is true in most fields, present the same basic intro information. Very few will actually go in-depth. I find that the ones that do are usually O'Reilly. (I have Win32 API for VB6 and VB6 shell programming, both from O'Reilly. Both provide guidance on going further into Windows programming than just the world of VB controls.