[Arkinsaw]

If you have Visual Basic skills then you should easily be able to pick up Visual C++ from a tutorial book as long as you have Visual Studio. Programming is programming, its just syntactical differences.

You will have 'for' loops, 'do' loops, 'while' loops, ifelse, etc. and all the basic building blocks of any programming language. A book should be able to lead you through those very easily at your skill level.

Where you might have a little trouble is with pointers. If you can't get the hang of them out of a book or tutorial then find a C++ programmer and give him $50 for a personal demo. You will save some cash.

Plus, I bet you could go to your local community college and a find a needy CS student who would give you a one on one for a 12 pack of beer.

[1stFreedom]

I've done both VB and VC++ and they are different monsters.

VB takes care of the GUI for you. In VC++ you take care of the GUI. VB hides so much from you you don't realize it.

I'm doing some COM work in VB right now and I'm using a book that give both the C++ and VB aspects of COM. The book describes COM from a C++ perspective while giving VB examples. Believe me, it is a big jump from VB to C++.

If you have done API calls before, like handling GetOpenFileName calls, windows messaging (keystroke interceptng, etc), COM, OOP, then you are in a good position to learn VC++ rather quickly.

[MarkeyD]

You are assuming he understands Object Oriented Programming. Most programmers I know, don't really get OOP.