Mr Willis thank you very much for writting your books (don't stop it). I`ve bought Begining VB2005 and Database programing. I`ve read F. Balena, Rockford Lhotka, Rod Stephens, Roger Jennings, and so on but you´re the best.
I'd like to know if you write about Threading, Reflection, Network, Serialization, Reports(rdlc) (please do it for community developers, jajaja!) Now i try to implement undoable feature to my deskstop application. Can I help me? I know serialization would be useful for this work, but what do you think?
The last question, i´ve seen at MSDN, a class for Embedding SQL Server Express into Custom Applications but no works and it´s incomplete. Have you ever publish about this? Thanks Mr Willis and sorry for my basic English!

Civil Engineer, VB developer

Thanks for the compliments. I have a new book (http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Basic-2...9784435&sr=8-2) due out next month which discusses threading, serialization, and attaching a SQL Server database at runtime in an application. I'm confident that this book would be just what you are looking for.

Thanks,
Thearon

Thanks Mr Willis. I´ve been a VB 6 developer and now Migrate to VB2005, a very traumatic change. I´ve learned ActiveX, and now I realize that this has stopped being in use. I believe that VBNet had to incorporate a lot of elements from Java language. Why did Microsoft spend its time in developing this technologies(COM, ActiveX) that anybody uses today, if there was something that was sounding like Java or OOP? Microsoft always marked trend in the industry of the software and always I will trust in this company, although this causes occasionally small headaches to me, but I continue thinking that Microsoft is the best Company of software than it exists. Now, i'd want to learn Design Patterns but I am scared that in few years this theory stops to be used. What do you think?

Civil Engineer, VB developer

As with any other language, Visual Basic has evolved over the years. Microsoft has made a tremendous effort to always enhance the language to use the latest technologies available and in use in the market. This was evident with ActiveX and COM. Visual Basic .NET has continued this effort by giving Visual Basic programmers a true object-oriented language. Visual Basic .NET introduced the .NET paradigm, allowing us to create applications that communicate with each other over the Internet.

While there is quite a learning curve between VB6 and Visual Basic .NET (any version), we as developers should embrace and welcome new technology. I personally am very happy to see that Visual Basic .NET is a true object-oriented programming language and a language that levels the playing field with developers of other languages.

As far as your concern about Design Patterns; can one go wrong learning the latest technology in use in the market place? Don’t we become more marketable as developers having embraced and demonstrated our programming skills using the latest technologies? Jump on the band wagon and learn Design Patterns, you won’t be sorry that you did.

Thearon

I coincide with you and recognize this effort that Microsoft did, butI think that Microsoft had much impatience in releasing that version of software. I think that if Microsoft had been able to control its anxiety , It could have taken care of that the learning curve betwenn vb6 to vbnet is not so difficult. Nevertheless, I realized that the sacrifice in migrating to this technology was very satisfactory and Microsoft is the past, the present and the future of sofware developing, at least for me. I´m trying to convince my colleagues to make the change but it is very difficult that they do it because they can separate their code in 3 layers. I´m still thinking that Vb6 is amazing take a look:
http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb...56865&lngWId=1
It needed to read an opinion of people qualified like you, that you cause that the development is an art and makes easy what is difficult

Civil Engineer, VB developer