Geting on the bus, not under it...

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What is the difference in the code between the two languages anyway, from the code point of view? I know that .net allows you use components without having to import/reference them because a lot of them are include in .net. However, the code seem much more complicated than it did in vb6.0 why is that?

I'm not trying to be sarcastic here but, to paraphrase the words of the wise Ben Parker, with great power comes great complexity. And the .Net framework is indeed very powerful. I understand that VB.Net seems too complex at first but you are now experiencing the well-known feeling of reading programs in a language that's alien to you. You need to try to get into VB.Net in order to understand the order of the things it does. And obviously any attempt to learn a .Net language implies that you'll immerse yourself in the .Net framework as well.

Also is there an idiots guide to converting code from vb60 to vb.net without using the conversion tool?

Any quick-and-dirty conversion guideline would ignore the complexity of the framework and the fact that old VB6 code would need refactoring in order to take advantage of the framework's benefits. So, in a nutshell, no there is not and can never be an idiots guide to converting.