Hi All: I have a copy of Marco's book and I'm trying to work through it page-by-page. Up until now, I've only programmed .NET projects in VB, having started to migrate from VBScript.

In the past, I've used some public C#-to-VB converters to help me with C# examples, but the converters don't always do a perfect job. I'm trying to convert the project as I go along to VB, but keep getting stuck on what should be simple code-behind stuff...problem is I'm not familiar with C# syntax at all, and I'm not that familiar with OOP either (but I'm trying to learn).

I have the sample project open in an instance of VS2008, and my own version in another instance of VS2008, and try to go back and forth, but am still running into problems. Does anyone know of a "port" of BH from C# to VB that I could refer to? Or should I just give up and try to shift over to C# instead of struggling to rewrite blocks of code in VB?

Otherwise, I'm going to end up filling up the forums with lots of "why doesn't this work" types of questions until I'm up to speed, and I want to spare everyone that :)

Suggestions appreciated!

I converted that application to vb using a program called instant.vb from http://www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com/. The demo version will allow up to 100 lines of code to be converted and it works great including converting C# Linq syntax to VB syntax.

I don't have that converted app anymore and it did that awhile to convert. I'm using DotNetNuke for development.

You may want to check out DotNetNuke or Telerik's Site Finity CMS for web site development. Dnn doesn't have much documentation but their are some good books out now on the 5.0 version and Telerik's SiteFinity has a free community version and pretty good documentation.

There is also some module development Webinars on the Dnn site to get you started in module/skin development......http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Products/Webinars/tabid/1270/Default.aspx

Hope that helps,

Burl

dotnetnoob:

Does anyone know of a "port" of BH from C# to VB that I could refer to?

A fully functional version of the BeerHouse in VB can be found here:

(It is the second download link in the list)

http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764584642,descCd-DOWNLOAD.html

Thanks...that's just what I needed...a big time-saver! 

 The new version of the Beer House was written VB.NET first, but I have a C# version available too.. I am currently updating the C# source code and working out some last few kinks here and there. All the code is available on Code Plex.

http://thebeerhouse.codeplex.com/