Oh, sweet. Let me know how you like them. One of these days I'll get back into Visual Basic programming. I just never have the time these days.

This book is due to arrive on Monday.

One advantage in using VB.NET is that it can write both desktop apps and web apps.  And yes, they can share some of the same backend code since they are in the same language, making it easier to convert from one to the other and maintain them.  While "Access Web App" ended up a failure, VB.NET makes converting a desktop app to web app a viability.  But alas, Microsoft has stopped promoting VB.NET, and has been pushing C# as the language for web app.  If you look for books on VB.NET web apps, most were written 10-20 years ago.  I checked out sample pages of the books Kevin mentioned above, and they seem to cover only desktop apps.

I just checked, and both of those Kiong books are available for free with my Kindle membership. Not that I have time to actually read them right now. Anyhow, I added one of them to my Kindle reader, and I'm just browsing through it real quick. It looks pretty solid, kind of basic, but that's what its name implies. It's a beginner's guide.

Looks like this one's on there too. There's a lot of stuff in the Kindle store for free. Well, it's not free. You pay a monthly fee for it, but still.

I have bought from the Kindle Store in the past and they are great (and cheaper), but I still prefer a good old-fashioned paperback.

I would like to know how VB.NET handles SubForms and Reports/SubReports

-Raymond

It's on my todo list to record
Just need to get the basics done first

I checked out Amazon sample pages of this author's works mentioned above.  His writing style seems a bit pretty terse.  A paragraph is often just one or two sentences, followed by lots of bullet points with short text (pictured below).  The "Made Easy" books may be more suitable for this style, but his advanced books are written the same way too.  I tried to look for the publisher's name, but couldn't find it, so maybe he self-published.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of books that are written that way. Then again, you could say that my books that I put together are a bit too wordy. Hard to find a good balance

I looked at another independently-published book called "ASP.NET Core Web Development for Beginners" by Lucian Verne, and it also has the same terse writing style (pictured below).  This is not how this kind of books used to be, as older people like you and I know.

Pictured below is how these book used to be.  This is from "Professional Visual Studio 2017", authored by Bruce Johnson and published by Wrax.  On running VS for the first time, it also talks about the cloud capabilities of signing in, and in considerable detail too.  It gives the reader a more complete understanding of the subject at hand.  All the books I've read from the 90s up to about 10 years ago have been like this.  Maybe books aren't the first place people go to for info anymore.  Yes, the Internet has useful info, but it's scattered everywhere and not everything is worthwhile.  For beginners of any subject at least, a good book in hand that serves as a one-stop shop for info is still a valuable thing.

Yeah... that's when books were great. That's how I wrote my book...

CIG Excel 2010. Shameless plug. Hey... it's my website. I'll do what I want. Gotta milk that "published author" status as long as I can. LOL

I still treasure my signed copy

Richard  Is there a market for this kind of book still?  If you were to write a book like this today the old-fashioned way and probably self-publish it, would it be feasible, worthwhile, challenging, etc.?  I know nothing about the independent publishing business.  But I know today's attention span problem in the cellphone era is probably a factor.

Well, I've thought about putting together a more elaborate Access book. Right now, I do have a book on Amazon, which, if you have the Kindle membership, you can get for free. It's basically my Access Beginner 1 class, my 4-hour free tutorial that's on YouTube in book form. I get a few downloads here and there, but I'm certainly not getting rich off of it, but it's written in the traditional classic style. You can actually grab a copy off my website here if you want to. It's free, but I put it on Amazon, and if you want to buy a hardcover of it, you can too. They do print on demand. I don't know if it's worth my time to actually publish a real, actual Access book, like I did with the Complete Idiot's Guide to Excel years ago. That took a whole summer to write. Of course, I had to meet the publisher's exacting specifications. They were not easy about that, and it takes a lot of work to put a professional book together. That was not a fun summer. LOL