Not often you get something for free, so I was suprised to find a couple of useful Visual Basic.NET books at Microsofts web site
| The first is "Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers" and is a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6 it documents the adoption and code migration issues you'll encounter.
The second is "Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET" and is is a fairly complete technical guide on upgrading Visual Basic 6 applications to Visual Basic .NET, including how to upgrade applications with XML Web services, ADO.NET, and .NET remoting. It also provides big-picture architectural advice, a reference of function and object model changes, and hundreds of before-and-after code samples.
Download both as e-books here: |
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbrun/ms788234.aspx
Also worth noting that some of Microsoft's partners also offer some good freebies, like courses on migration and you can read about those offers here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbrun/ms788231.aspx