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What is the difference between VB6 and VB.net?

All help would be greatly appreciated

The differences are vast and all-consuming but have no fear! If you code in vb6 then jump into .net and see. This is too general of a question to answer here. You can find this type of info on the web and if you have more specific questions or need help with vb.net then by all means please feel free to ask here.

I thought they were pretty similar

the syntax is the same but that's where the similarities end. That's why I say "jump in and see". VB.NET is truly Object Oriented where 6 was about 90% OO. Basically MS kept everything that was good about 6 and redesigned all the rest. The IDE is awesome. And the main difference is you are not using COM Objects, you are using pure .NET classes. But you can wrap com objects in Com-Interop so things you wrote in 6 can be used in .net. There is little or no need to make cryptic win32api calls, and now with the advent of Direct X 9 for managed code, you can implement the power of direct X 9 directly in your vb.net/C# programs - yes even games are now possible "in VB".

You should read up on vb.net, now your programming with the same tools and power once only available to C++ programmers.