It's different for everyone. It depends on your existing knowledge and ability to understand .Net.

>Hello
> I am starting to learning programming in visual basic.net by my self, and i want to know how long it would takes to have enough expertise to develope software for small companies i mean 20-40 users of the software, because i dont want to get a job for developing software and being fired after some days or weeks, is painful or i have to get throguh that path anyway ?.
>How can i get shorter the time of learning the new language?
>Could you give me some advice please
> Thank you in advance
>
> Luis Martin