I've seen too many questions and statements on this forum from people who assume VB.NET is nothing more than the next Visual Basic. I'm getting sick of it!

VB.NET is not Visual Basic. Its an entirely different and new programming language that, IMO, is much easier and better than VB6 in EVERY way. You just need to take the time to learn the language, the .NET framework, and the IDE from a REAL book (not just some bits of documentation on the web).

Here is what .NET is about:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...l/sdkstart.asp