I like many of you have done very little with VB. As for me; I had no idea where or how to start. I could not see how typing those hundreds of lines of script could ever save me any kind of time and as far as finding a way to learn it or someone to get me started that just got to be a joke, unless I went and took a full blown course (that I didn't even know if I'd get anything out of or if I would ever use”. I had given up.
Well the other day I happened across something I think might actually be of help and makes doing something in VB practical. I don’t need to write every one of those hundreds of lines of script, and I can start learning from myself.
What I did was I took a program I already have “A regular PC DMIS Program I built and run often” and did an EXPORT as BASIC. When I opened it up all those hundreds of lines of script were already in there and though in a different “form or language” what ever you want to call it I found that I could walk thru most if not all of it as it was the same program I have in PC DMIS also. Now rather than typing all that out I need only “ADD, SUBTRACT and CHANGE things to make it work for me.
Now I think I have a starting place to try some VB.
I don’t know maybe I’m the only one that did not know this? Maybe I’m not yet on the right track, But I think I have a starting place now and I know before this I was lost.
Well, what you see in the exported BASIC program is the syntax for the commands used in your program. Post the exported program here.
There are a multitude of 'free' VB tutorials, classes and courses on the web. Choose one and start fiddling with it and you'll be on your way. It does help if you have a 'goal' or a specific application/function you want to code, instead of doing 'Hello World' apps or coding stuff just for the coding of it...
Well, what you see in the exported BASIC program is the syntax for the commands used in your program. Post the exported program here.
There are a multitude of 'free' VB tutorials, classes and courses on the web. Choose one and start fiddling with it and you'll be on your way. It does help if you have a 'goal' or a specific application/function you want to code, instead of doing 'Hello World' apps or coding stuff just for the coding of it...