is visual studio.net hard?
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It's not at all hard. It has a very low entry level with intellisense and wizards and all that stuff. Those features are for any and all languages, but you should find VB.NET to be the easiest among them.\nPlease note ADO.NET is not a language but one of the features of the .NET Framework Class Library.
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.NET is very complex and advanced, I'd really recommend you go on a course and buy a good book / manual rather than trying to learn from resources on the net.\n\nThis website http://www.appdev.com/promo.asp?page=SE00005 does provide a free of charge sample training CD that might help you decide whether further training is for you tho.
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Yes there is an alternative to Visual Studio, except it does not do Visual Basic.  I believe these people offer Delphi that is similar to Visual Basic, but I have not used Visual Basic.\n\nThe product is called Turbo, and can be found here\nhttp://www.turboexplorer.com/\n\nYou can download it from here\nhttp://www.borland.com/downloads/download_turbo.html\n\nThe license I have got runs out in just under 100 years, and can be used for commercial use.
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Yiou can start with Microsoft's own site. Its quite useful\n\nhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/default.aspx
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If you are a beginner, i would start with something easy.\nTry VB or VB.Net.  Don't think about C++ or something.\nRemember that Anti-virus program's, just as other program's are VERY HARD to develop.  \n\nBut if you want to go for simple Windows Forms, ... Microsoft released a free version of Visual Studio 2005 Express (at least for one year...)\n\nYou can start here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/\n\nIf you want to program for Windows and linux, think about Mono .Net framework or Java.\n\nBuy a book and start to read like you've never did before.  (I'am currently reading my 3th book this year, this one is 1500+ pages).  \nAnd never give up...  ;-)
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Microsoft provides free scaled down versions of Visual Studio here...\n\nhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx
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Visual Studio.NET or one of the free "express" developers such as Visual C# Express.  Visual Studio costs money but the express IDE's are free.
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Here's a list of sites i've used that have been a great help for me in completing many C# projects.\nBy far thecodeproject is the best source of examples.\n\nI should also mention, that if you have a full copy of Visual Studio, the help files and MSDN library that comes with it is a good source as well.
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For ease of learning, I dont think there is any language easier than Visual Basic.  Actually, just about any language with "BASIC" in the name is quite simple and easy to learn.\n\n(We are not discussing the relative merrits of each language, just how easy it is to learn).
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Well, VB.NET is a language...but with it you can do website development, application development, Windows Services, and more.  So, I'm a little confused by your question.  Here's a few ways I'm interpreting your question, and my answers to them:\n\nIf you mean "design versus programming", then it's a WHOLE DIFFERENT BEAST.  Because VB.NET is a language (just like Spanish or French), you have to learn to 'speak' it in order to use it well.  Sure, Microsoft automates some of it for you, but you don't really unleash the full potential of the language unless you edit it by hand.\n\nIf you mean "application versus web development", then they're pretty similar, under the hood.  VB.NET for web pages is the same VB.NET that you'd use for application development.  There's some significant differences between the two, but someone who codes VB.NET for web pages should have no problem coding VB.NET applications.\n\nIf you are talking about career paths, and which direction is more in demand, then that's a hard one.  Web design doesn't always pay very good...and it's REALLY competitive!  On the other hand, VB.NET isn't a really popular language in the market right now.  See, Visual Basic (the original language) all but ruined any chance VB.NET had of being taken seriously.  Instead of VB.NET, if it were me, I'd learn C# (...which really pains me to say because I'm a VB.NET guy...but hey, I'm being honest here...)\n\nHope at least ONE of those helps!  LOL\n--Dan
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Check this out.  It is talking about VS .NET 2003 but should get you the needed information.\n\n\n\nhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/previous/2003/sysreqs/default.aspx
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No easily. Its opensource. Get the source comment out the lines that allow you get to the menu and recompile. (this is much more work than an average computer want to get into)
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hello sindhuja.. r u frm chennai?? hehe..jus asked..\n\nvc++ is indeed a challenge for those of us who have moved to visual programming . But trust me.. the programming is nothin more than using the "auto complete ", application wizard and class wizard features of vc++. It makes programming very very simple , so that u dont have to remember everything.\n\nwell.. for the vc++ basics thing.. u can try to get the following two books::\n\n1) MFC programming by JEFF PROSISE and \n2) David J Kruglinski, Scott Wingo :: "Programming Microsoft Vc++ Fifth edition"\n\nthese two are da best resources to start out with vc++. and if ya feel any of the topics are difficult, u can always ask me !! (basics only plz)\n\nY! id: anand_87123\n\nanand_87123@yahoo.com\nput the message as : Y! answers - vc++\n\n\n(u can download the digital versions of these books. Try downloading it frm p2p . I got both these using edonkey ; )\n)\n\n\nand now , coming to websites, the answer given above my answer is pretty good. also include the following : \n\nhttp://www.functionx.com\n\nit gives u tutorials , component - by - component.
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The previous .Net version of VB/C#/etc supported both desktop, mobile and web applications, for .Net Framework 1.1+.  The new Visual Studio for 2005 support the .Net 2.0.\n\nMicrosoft is releasing a scaled down version of Visual Studio 2005 with just VB called Visual Basic Express 2005.  It will support the same .Net platform, but NOT do web and mobile developement, nor will it have the XML editor.\n\nSee the link below for more info...
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.NET due to its future plateform independence and low size of executable or dll
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Well for an official and thorough comparison between Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .net refer http://www.microsoft.com/learning/syllabi/en-us/2562bfinal.mspx\n\nCoz let me tell you will find wat you are looking for and which we all also won't be able to tell you.
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If you know JavaScript or a C-type language fairly well, and understand the ideas behind event-driven programming models, then yes, it's easy. If you don't, then it is quite hard.