Hi Liam, I am figuring your decision to use VB is because you began with VB 6 which makes perfect sense to update your skills to VB.NET since some of the "newby" stuff was already learned, and you can focus on more technical topics that relate specificly to VB.NET. In theory if you used VB 6 and DirectX 8 you can convert that to VB.NET and DirectX 9 provided you figure out the changes and pitfalls along the way. Problem is when talking about newbies and VB.NET and directX 9 Microsoft has aabandoned VB users in promoting C-Sharp. That's my main reason for not promoting VB.NET. I have nothing personal against the language, but unless you have prier experience with VB languages and DirectX learning and picking up is the hard way of going. Although, I know Che Martain did it with VB.NET 2003 with allot of help from Justin, and he at one time confessed to me that he would have rather gone with C-Sharp if he had it all to do again. An important point i'd like to flush out is once you learn one of the .NET supported languages the real key is understanding the framework. Once you are familiar with the framework learning in working in the other languages is much easier. There is a very good book on Safari that teaches you everything you want to know about .NET forms and the Framework, but guess what? It is written for C-Sharp users. Grin.
Liam wrote: > Quintin: > > Autoit is an excelent language to get your feet web. However, if you are > serious about doing anything serious, your best bet is to learn a language > like c sharp or vb. I'm a very big vb fan, and I know me and Tom will > disagree. But, it's what works for me, and it's what I can teach people on > the best. Grnated, my dot net stuff is rusty, but I'm still learning, and > I've found all I need to know to get dx to work fairly well. However, Tom > is right in that there is not a lot out there for beginner programmers. I > really really do not like autoit though. There is much better out there. I > won't write a whole list of the things I don't like, just know that I > dislike it greatly. Hahaha. > > Liam > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
