Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET, included in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Professional, Enterprise Developer and Enterprise Architect editions, is the latest version of Visual Basic built specifically for existing Visual Basic developers who want to get the most out of the software development experience.
In addition to more power, productivity, and application stability, Visual Basic .NET provides key enhancements that solve the most pressing challenges that Visual Basic developers face today. From the new integrated development environment (IDE) to a modern, streamlined Visual Basic language, Visual Basic .NET delivers the top requested features built for today's Visual Basic developer.
Here are a few links that may help you out in your understanding
of programming in .NET:
Got Dot Net? .Net Framework community website
Programmer's Heaven .Net Zone The most complete online source to download free programming files, source code, tools and more for a whole range of languages and technologies, including VB, C/C++/C# and .NET.
Your free resource for C# and .NET development Provides C# code samples, forums, articles, news, tools, tutorials, links, FAQs, and more.
C# Corner FAQ Source code, articles, FAQ, tutorials, discussion forums, news, links, and resources for .NET, C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, XML and SOAP developers.
Developer
Fusion Thousands of tutorials, source code, reviews, components and discussion
forums for VB, ASP, PHP, .NET, XML and C++ developers.
Sam's .NET Pages A comprehensive and unique .NET site with focus on the .NET Framework, CLR and CTS. The site features technical information, tutorials, links and book recomendations.
MSDN Community MSDN Communities is your launching pad for communicating online with other developers about Microsoft products, technologies, and services.
LEAD Technologies Image-enabling programming libraries for .NET. The first comprehensive imaging SDK for the .Net framework.