Julia Case Bradley | Anita C Millspaugh
1 programming in Visual Basic .net
I used this book in a programming course and I utterly enjoyed it. It is simple to understand and it comes with examples for every new concept; the examples actually work. I recommend that you do at least the first three exercises in every chapter. Doing this, will make proficient in programming in VB.NET.
2 Ex-cel-si-or
This is a great book for beginners and intermediate to experts whom have been working in Visual Basic 6 and now trying Visual Basic .NET.
The book requires the open mind of a programmer and your way is easy and you will be navigating with strong wings in the wind.
3 Find another source
If you want to drag and drop objects without understanding what you are doing, this is a book for you. Otherwise, there are other books that do a much better job.
Also, in Chapter 3, there is one glaring error to note: the authors continutally describe the "@" symbol to be a wildcard in SQL Server when it is used to define a variable.