I've just finished mastering DOS commands and programming to the point where I make commands appear at will. Now, I want to further my education of programming with Visual Basic, to learn the ropes. HOWEVER, I STARTED with Visual Basic .NET 2003, and all the books I have assume I know Visual Basic 6.0! Where can I go to learn the basic fundamentals uf programming? (Currently, most of the book's code looks like gibberish.)I'm not sure that anybody masters the CMD processor commands, ESPECIALLY since it changes with every version of Windows. Be that as it may, VBScript might be good next step. Scripting offers objects, methods and properties but still maintains a text file environment run under an INTERPRETER as opposed to full scale compiling and linking.

You might want to CONSIDER rewriting your batch files as scripts. It's not as easy as it appears. A site that can help you with tools, examples and hints can be found at: Windows Script

Good luck. Hey, I know I'm no expert compared to you, but I have done everything my current version (5.1) gives me. I guess I got ahead of myself. I just mean I'm "good" at it. That IS a good idea, by the way. I'll do that.