Application on Extranet

Gary,
There are plenty of great books out right now on Developing VB.NET applications. If you live near a Borders with a good technical section, I recommend browsing a couple of books to find one that best matches your styple. To help the transition from VB6 to VB.NET, I really liked the "Application Development Using Visual Basic and .NET" by Robert J. Oberg, Peter Thosteinson and Dona L Wyatt. Publisher PH PTR.

I also have a small consulting business. You can contact me if you need help on your project.

I highly recommend that you go with a browser based application developed in ASP.NET/ VB.NET. With .NET you can easily develop a feature rich GUI and with a broswer solution avoid installation issues.

Brian Pullin.

I agree that you should browse the Internet and bookstores to get books for your information. Depending on your purpose of Extranet, you can find some books which guide you how to develope the system step by step.

In addition, it is not difficultto know some general steps to setup VB application and SQL database, but difficult to debug some cases, solve special problems during development or maintenance. I suggest to search some online forum and many experts dicuss how to solve problems there. For example, you can get SQL server information from http://www.sqlmag.com/ . Many people is there in a forum, better can the forum helps you.