I was at amazon.com, checking out the price for VB.net Standard edition, and I was looking at the user reviews. One person had this to say:

Don't waste your money on this one, March 12, 2002
Reviewer: thekeegans from CT, USA
I made the unfortunate mistake of purchasing the "Standard" version of VB.NET. I would have rated this product a zero if it was available. They should have called this VB.NET Trial, not Standard. It is very misleading as to what you can do with it.

If you want to do anything more than creating simple executables or simple ASP.NET pages, then go for the VB.NET Professional Upgrade. ..., it's only ...more than the Standard version, and you get most of the cool tools you would expect in a "Standard" version.

With VB.NET Standard, you cannot upgrade VB6 code, you cannot make libraries (DLL) or controls (OCX), there's no database designer, no deployment project designer, etc.

So if you really want to do anything fun/useful with VB.NET, spend the extra couple of dollars, get the professional upgrade, .... I wish I had.
Also, is VB.net Pro even sold separately? I can only seem to find VB.net Standard sold separately, and I don't have $1000 to buy Visual.net Studio Pro. Thanks for any feedback!

Ryan