Welcome!

My name is Florian,  self taught programmer, mostly amateur, definitely enthusiast! Recently i have taken up Visual Basic.NET as topic for my studies.

Even though visual basic has been around since 1991, the latest iteration can do everything expected of a modern programming language. More to the point, VB is one of a long List of languages which all compile to the SAME intermediate language. So basically, anyone writing in any of these languages can do the same thing, just differently formulated.
Now since i just started in earnest with VB, quite a lot of time goes into looking up how to do stuff. I decided that writing about it might save another guy / girl some time.
(I actually programmed before in C++, using some books, and in cobol for a job i held for a while. Cobol sucked. I learned from it though.)

What i am using:
I actually have two versions of compilers installed on my PC:
- Visual Basic 2010 Express (free)
- Visual Studio 2015 (free registration required after 30 days)
After downloading and trying the 2010 version first, it worked fine.

I then tried the 2015 version. It was bigger, badder and more intimidating looking. When using the WPF layout editor to try the very first tutorial, I experienced some weird bugs in the WPF editor, probably due to me doing something wrong. It also contains a lot of stuff i won't be using any time soon, and for some reason its considerably slower when i build and run an app.

So as long as 2010 does what i need it to, that will work just fine for me. I will miss out on the the bookmark window though.