Greetings,

I am working on a new project that involves Excel-VBA but I have no prior experience programming in VBA, Visual Basic, and VB.Net. But, with a strong desire to learn and prior programming experience in Java, C, C++, and even Basic on the Commodore 64 many ages ago, I have a few questions.

1. Best way to learn VBA and Visual Basic? Should I be learning VB.Net and what is .NET programming all about? Also, there is a Visual Basic 6.0 accompanying prior versions of Visual Studio but with the latest VS comes VB.Net... I am a bit confused here.

2. Is VBA similar to JavaScript for Java and does it share that similar relationship? Would it be better to focus on VBA rather than Visual Basic?

Anything else you would like to share that would shepherd me into the world of VB and .NET programming would be appreciated.