Visual Basic Resources - Bold means highly recommended

www.netcrucible.com - MS XML Q&A
gotdotnet.com - Good .Net resources
www.vbaccelerator.com
www.solutioncentral.com
www.winfiles.com
www.fawcette.com
www.vbsquare.com

Visual Basic - good starting points

MSDN online msdn.microsoft.com - The most in-depth coverage. More than you can deal with.
MSDN Visual Basic msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/
Windows Developer Exchange - The best Non-Microsoft site for developing with MS products.
Developer.com - www.developer.com - Another great place.
Advanced Visual Basic - https://vb.duke.net
Yahoo - Just a bunch of links.
Avatar Magazine - Sometimes useful stuff.
Cobb group - www.cobb.com
Windows Developer Journal - www.wdj.com.
Microsoft Knowledge Base. support.microsoft.com/support
Site with cool software: nctweb.com/software/webtools.html

Friends

https://www.cjk-consulting.com/accessvb/logon.asp - Heartland VB and Access site maintained by Jim Wilson.
https://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/robkraft/professnl/vbresr.htm - This page.

Seminars

www.microsoft.com/events - Microsoft Events
VBITS - www.vbits99.com - Orlando 9/28-10/2
Online Seminars - www.microsoft.com/seminars

Newsgroups

List of MS newsgroups at support.microsoft.com/support/news - also has a newsreader.
Dejanews**** - Search tool for newsgroups and more.
Newsgroups - Excellent way to get specific questions answered - microsoft.public.vb.???
Newsgroups - Excellent way to get specific questions answered - microsoft.public.access.???
Newsgroups - Excellent way to get specific questions answered - comp.lang.basic.visual.???

ATECS/Colleges

Johnson County Community College - Good place to learn VB if you have no programming background.
Solutech - Offers Microsoft Official Curriculum.
Empower Trainers & Consultants - Offers Microsoft Official Curriculum.
New Horizons - Offers Microsoft Official Curriculum.
www.scholars.com - check out these online MCSD courses

Books

Doing Objects in Visual Basic - Deborah Kurata
Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server - Bill Vaughn
HardCore Visual Basic - Bruce McKinney
Murach - Book publisher - www.murach.com - contributor to Heartland VB SIG!
Visual Basic Night School - and many other books ONLINE at
https://www-c.developer.com/reference/library/078970921x/ewtoc.html
mspress.microsoft.com
www.mcp.com - MacMillan publishing. More books online - limited duration.
www.wrox.com - Another book publisher.
www.waite.com - Another book publisher.
www.amazon.com - buy them here cheap.
www.bookpool.com - or buy them here cheap.
www.barnesandnoble.com - or buy them here cheap.

Magazines

Visual Basic Programmer's Journal - VBPJ - also is www.devx.com
Inside Visual Basic - by the Cobb group ([email protected]) - expensive, but good articles.
Microsoft Interactive Developer - www.microsoft.com/mind
Web Builder - www.webbuildermag.com
VB Tech Journal - is this still in business? ([email protected])
Windows Developer Journal - www.wdj.com
ComputerUser - www.kccomputeruser.com
Visual Developer Magazine - www.coriolis.com
Windows NT Magazine - www.winntmag.com
Software Development - www.sdmagazine.com
Software Magazine - www.softwaremagazine.com
Web Builder - www.webbuildermag.com
Microsoft Certified Professional - www.mcpmag.com
Application Development Trends - www.adtmag.com
Database Programming and Design - www.dbpd.com
DBMS - www.dbmsmag.com
VB/Access Advisor - https://www.advisor.com/av.html
More links at https://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Programming_Languages/Visual_Basic/Magazines/

Getting Certified

Microsoft - www.microsoft.com/train_cert
MCSD Certification - https://www.microsoft.com/mcp/mktg/mcsd.htm

Software sites

www.softwarespectrum.com
www.componentsource.com
www.vb-web-directory.com
www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/campus/9449
www.advercast.com/vb/index.html - Search Engine for VB topics
www.vbcity.com
msdn.microsoft.com/code
support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/fileversion/default.asp?vartarge - dll hell rescue
www.mcpmag.com
www.develop.com
www.solutioncentral.com
www.actionjackson.com
msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag
www.designercontrols.com/Links/index.html - egads there is a lot of places for sample code, controls, etc.

www.vbextras.com - software seller.
www.mvps.org/ccrp - check out this site dedicated to creating FREE VB software and components.
www.activex.com - software seller.
www.zdnet.com - software seller.
www.shareware.com - software seller.
Yahoo software links - software sellers.
Yahoo Shareware links - software sellers.

Visual Basic Related

www.microsoft.com/data - ADO, ODBC, OLEDB, RDO, Universal Data Access
VBA - https://msdn.microsoft.com/vba/
Access - https://www.microsoft.com/access/default.asp

Get Emailed - by Listservs

User Groups

Heartland Visual Basic SIG
Access Users Group**** - Excellent place to go for everything you want for Microsoft Access.

Product Vendors - sometimes Free tools

FMS*** - A site offering tools to help you work with Microsoft Access.
Rational Rose - www.rational.com - UML object designor

Software News

InfoWorld - www.infoworld.com

Search Engines

YAHOO***** - Excellent starting point when looking for anything. Good opening page for your browser.
WebFerret*** - Let this tool perform searches at multiple sites simultaneously for you.
DICE - Search for job openings in the Information Processing world.

Project Management

PM Resources**** - Excellent list of links to many other sites with good Project Management stuff.

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