Books to Learn Visual Basic .net

Curious to learn VB 2005 but dont know which books to refer then read on..... 

Book 1: Perfect starting point for Amateurs

MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Developing Windows-Based Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .Net and Microsoft Visual C# .Net

This book which is also a Self study guide to a MCSD.Net topic covers the whole of VB.Net also VC#.net. Ideal for beginners as it starts from the ground up and moves ahead slowly but steadily covering each and every aspect of both the languages i.e. VB.Net and VC#.Net. Each topic has a brief to the point explanation and a code sample in both the languages.

If you are thinking of getting certified in VB.Net this book is a must read.

The only drawback of this book are the examples are given part by part and the user need to use his imagination a lot to put all the code together and get it running. But as the same code is provided in the included CD-ROM this is not a big issue.

Simple Reporting Application in VB.Net 2005

All who have worked on VB.Net 2005 with database have designed Report some or the other time. Reporting is one such feature which comes in handy at all times. 

Beginners have a tough time in figuring out how to create a Data-report in VB 2005. If you have worked previously on VB 6.0 or any lower versions the Data-Report functionality is sadly not available any more in VB.net. The same hase been replaced by ReportViewer another powerfull tool for creating User Reports in VB.net or even VC#.net

The following tutorial explains the simplest way to create a Report using ReportViewer.

Step 1: Create a New Project as shown in the Fig.

Complete Tutorial can be found Here