Beginner.

I have some experience with visualbasic 6.But didnt upgrade to .net.Though i had net 2002 ,2003 and now everyone is learning 2005 which is still beta as everyone knows.I have heard that there are differences between .net 2003 and the new visual studio 2005.What is better for me to start with?Should i wait until the official version is released?And if it is any good.

The fundamentals will remain the same. I'll admit I don't pay attention to expansion of the .NET library and stuff, but you should go ahead and get familiar with VB.NET. It will take you a little while to get used to *real* OOP... I had some previous Java experience, so when I moved from VB6, things weren't so bad. You'll be glad you moved to .NET once you find out all the great capabilities.

Just jump right in with the IDE/framework you have right now.

I'm on 2003 and I won't be upgrading until the next version after 2005. 2003 is tight, 2005 isn't.

Either way, keep your service packs up to date. I just found out that serialization was added with SP1, which was a bit of a surprise.