I need some advice. I'm looking to get into programming. But I am unclear where to start. I have worked with VB 5.0 a little and it's starting to make sense. I don't know if I'm doing more bad than good studying an outdated language. Is .Net the thing to get into now a days? If so there are so many .Net languages, which one should I look into. The Director of IT where I work says that I can't go wrong with VB, but asp.Net is for creating web based apps. And this is where everything is headed. He said learning some SQL would be good too since almost every app needs to pull from a database. I'm looking for some input from you all. Please help me out.

Thanks,
rsimmons