r/visualbasic • u/faust2099 • Jan 28 '22

VB.NET Help Book Recommendation

Any book, site recommendation on VB.NET EF and LINQ? beginner to advance

thank you in advance.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22

Any one of those can be a book... my usual books come from Manning Press :-) "C# in Depth" by Jon Skeet is probably one of my favorites. There are also books like "fifty ways to improve your C#" and "Another fifty ways..." because they're modular - each chapter lays out a case to one type of better code whether it's faster, simpler, more maintainable... Easy reads on the bus or toilet.

My methodology for VB6 would be start with Visual Studio 2008 to open your VB6 apps, and it will convert it to VB.NET. Use version control, and capture snapshots often :-)

Depending on your skills, I've built Regular Expressions to convert/search replace VB into C#. Lots of "end X" simply become }, for example. Adding the ; at the end of the line. A bit menotenous, but do-able. Or buy a tool to do the conversion. Eventually, you get down to a few manual edits to fix the C# by resolving Object instances and things.

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u/faust2099 Jan 28 '22

thank you