thanks roi

>>>Can you recommend any good VB books for an experienced VFP programmer who wants to get into VB? Emphasis on Data.
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>>I want something that explains things well, but skips all the "Hello World" beginner crap.
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>Hi Ken,
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>I've been working my way through the Wrox press VB series. It's pretty decent. I would start with "Beginning VB 6" by Peter Wright. Even though you have decent VFP skills the syntax is different enough to make the switch maddening (but then I'm a lisp programmer so if it doesn't have a billion ()s I'm not happy). ;)
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>The COM book in the series is excellent.
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>I haven't read wright's "Programming VB 6 with Objects" yet. But it's on the list.
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>The business object book is decent, Lhotka is rather wordy and repetive, and sometimes makes you work through all the different ways of doing something even they are lame. His DCOM book got good review on Amazon. I haven't read that one yet either.