Upgrading to .NET

So I've been pondering upgrading to .NET 2005 (or 2008) personal edition
from VB6 Pro, since I'll need to learn it eventually. Anyhow, I was wondering what differences (besides the code base) lay between the two, and what kind of functionality will I lose (or gain) from upgrading to .NET 2005 or 2008 personal edition from VB6 pro?

I read somewhere that .NET personal edition only supports local databases. if I use ODBC, would it matter if it's local or remote?

I really don't want to pay the $1,500 for the pro edition with MSDN, or have the limited funcationality of the express edition.

Hi there,
You can compare the differences between all versions of Visual Studio here and choose which one best suits your needs. Good luck!

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Originally Posted by nmadd

Hi there,
You can compare the differences between all versions of Visual Studio

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I already did that. What I want to know is what do I gain/lose when going from VB6 Pro to .NET personal. :P

Moved to General Developer

.NET makes many operations much easer than VB6. It's a purely object-oriented layout, which immediately makes things available that weren't before. Intellisense is also considerably more useful. Also, I do web development in VB and ASP.NET... I can't even imagine what it would take to do this particular job in VB6, if it's even possible, yet the majority of what I do is not that complicated, thanks to the object-oriented and web-friendly structure of .NET as a whole.