Just opened VB for first time. Where do i start?
 

I'm new to VB where do you suggest I start? :confused:

Which version of VB are you using?

It says it is 2003.

[EDIT] i think it is .net
does that make a difference?
what does that mean?

Well there are two types of Visual Basic.

The older versions, like VB6, VB5, VB4 and gthe ones before that, and the more modern and probably more widely used kind of Visual Basic .. VB.net. It matters what VB you have because the programming in .net is different to the programming in VB6.

It's hard for anyone to answer your question unless you know for certain. A simple search in google or yahoo! can't do any harm though.

Hope this helps.

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
Does this help at all ?

Indeed it does. This should be moved to the Visual Basic .NET forum. I'm not sure of any VB-specific tutorials, but since this is .Net you can read a C# tutorial and learn the same thing.

You could start off by just playing around. Create a new Windows Forms project and drag a textbox onto the form. It will be named TextBox1 unless you change it. Look at the properties pane on the lefthand side. Fiddle around with things such as Text. Now drag a button onto the form. It will start off as Button1. Go into the code view. Somewhat near the top you will see two dropdowns. In the first select Button1. In the second select Clicked. A section of code is added that is called when you click Button1. In the space between the lines with "Sub" and "End Sub" type " TextBox1.Text="Hello World" " without the outside pair of quotes. Now, when you press run and click the button, Hello World appears in the textbox. I wouldn't call that example entirely accurate, but you'll figure it out :) You can poke around in the help boxes and by just trying things. That's a really good way to learn when starting out.

How do I run it?

Hit the play button in the toolbar.

move over to C# i would advise, dont worry about looking into VB .net and both can be done in the program you have.

if you bought it in a box instead of , say, downloading it, doesn't it come with a "getting started" book? it's really thin and kind of orangish brownish.