Big Country Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 So, my duties here at work may soon include maintaining some code we have writtin in Visual Basic, as well as writing some basic code (mainly setting up macros, etc. in Excel and Access to automate tasks and reports) My experience has basically been limited to finding something onling similar to what I am looking to do and then playing with it until it works as I want it to (such as code for automatically coloring charts based on the series name, etc.) Just curious what books I should consider that I could use as reference as my responsibilities in this area look to expand in the coming year. (And yes, my employers know I have no formal training or experience in this) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myhousekey Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 I got this book over Christmas. I haven't opened it yet so I can't tell you how good or bad it is. I'm planning on getting this more advanced book once I get thru the Dummies book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 So, my duties here at work may soon include maintaining some code we have writtin in Visual Basic, as well as writing some basic code (mainly setting up macros, etc. in Excel and Access to automate tasks and reports) My experience has basically been limited to finding something onling similar to what I am looking to do and then playing with it until it works as I want it to (such as code for automatically coloring charts based on the series name, etc.) Just curious what books I should consider that I could use as reference as my responsibilities in this area look to expand in the coming year. (And yes, my employers know I have no formal training or experience in this) Since I'm having such a hard time finding work, I figgered this would be a good time to work on getting my Microsoft certs in VB. I know just a little bit about this stuff. There are several flavors of Visual Basic. Currently VB .NET is the big dog. There is legacy code written in VB 6.0 as well as the marco portion of things written in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). They are all pretty much the same yet they vary in subtle and not so subtle ways. In other words, to say that one is a subset of another is almost completely but not quite entirely true. You'll first want to figure out which flavor was used to build the code that you have to maintain and focus on that version. I've found that things published by Microsoft press are generally really good for studying for their exams, but not so good in the real world. The current books put out by WROX are about the best when it comes to real world coding. The one thing you absolutely want to do is to get on the microsoft newsgroups. They are located at news://msnews.microsoft.com They have several specific to all the VB and (perhaps more importantly) associated topics such as the Win32 API. MS engineers are encouraged to spend some time there answering questions so if you've come up against something its most likely already been answered there. You can also feel free to ping me with any questions you may have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilthorp Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 99% of the consultants I'm talking to lately call it "WeeBee".....ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puzzle head Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Fantastic Book: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/p...0470191341.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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