As far as I know Visual Basic is owned by Microsoft and they make the only compiler. There might be other versions of Basic that have free compilers, but the syntax won't be the same.
Josh
Get these: MozillaOperaOpenBSD
I have books for sale: "MCSD in a Nutshell" and "VB Distributed Exam Cram" - PM me for details. Will also trade for a decent ATX Pentium 2 MB/CPU/RAM combo.