Visual Studio 2005 Express Questions?

1. How would I make a hex editor in Visual Basic 2005 Express?


2. What the heck is C sharp anyway?


3. How get something from a VB program to my webpage (such as a contributing idea given from a text box) without copying and pasting manually? (via code)


4. What is J sharp anyway?


5. Can OpenOffice.org be used in full compatibility (all the functions and stuff) that Microsoft Office can? If not, what can and can't it do with the Visual Studio Programs?


6. Where is a good resource for Visual Studio as a whole, for all skill levels (don't say MSDN, darn it!)?





I would appreciate it if each person would answer one, some, or all of these questions.

Visual Studio 2005 Express Questions?
1) With a lot of work, pain and headaches. It's not worthwhile to waste your time in Visual Basic.


2) It's a scripting language.


3) By completely reworking the code from Visual Basic to something like JavaScript. Usually JavaScript alone will not be enough and you'll need to use more things.


4) Another scripting language.


5) OpenOffice.org does not support VB for applications and I don't think it supports any scripting language from Microsoft.


6) MSDN is the best resource out there. Other than that, your bookstore.
Reply:1) I don't know and don't really care - there are zillions of hex editors to choose from (most aren't free but a few are). And one written in VB.NET probably wouldn't be all that great. VB is good for quick-n-dirty applications but anything professional is better done in another language, IMO.





2) C# is a programming language.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp





3) Not really sure what you want to do here.





4) J# is Microsoft's "Java killer" based programming language on .NET. Sort of a migratory path for the 5 people in the world who used Visual J++:





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp





5) Huh?





6) MSDN. Had to say it :) How about:





http://www.codeproject.com/





Instead?








Edit: To the person above this post, C# and J# are [bytecode] compiled languages, NOT scripting (or interpreted) languages.