Throwback Thursday: A free (ancient) book about VB .NET

Sixteen years ago I wrote my first tech book, The Book of VB .NET. It was a guide for beginner programmers moving to the exciting new world of .NET, with extra advice for those coming from my favorite classic environment: the clean and quirky Visual Basic 6. The book was published by the wonderful No Starch Press. Anyone who knows No Starch knows that they rarely publish books that deal with Microsoft products, but Bill Pollock liked the concept (and my writing) enough to give it an enthusias...