Learning Visual Basic .net

[EvilManagedCare]

I'm heading to Border's to hopefully pick up a book on Visual Basic. Any recommendations for a good book to learn it?

Oh, and I have an embarassingly silly question: What is the difference between Visual Basic 2005, and Visual Basic .NET? If I learned VB 2005, would I then be able to develop an application in VB using Visual Studio .NET? I apologize in advance, I'm a bit foggy on all this .NET talk.

My quandary is: do I look for a book teaching Visual Basic 2005, or Visual Basic .NET?

Thanks in advance

edit: added novice questions. Please be gentle

 

[ijester]

There is a significant difference between VB6/Prior versions and VB.Net.

What are you hoping to accomplish?

 

[EvilManagedCare]

Originally posted by: ijester
There is a significant difference between VB6/Prior versions and VB.Net.

What are you hoping to accomplish?

I need to learn how to program in Visual Basic under the .NET framework.

 

[KB]

Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Basic .NET are the same thing, language construct wise; however when refering to Visual Basic 2005 you are only using the .Net framework 2.0; and if you say Visual Basic .NET you could be refering to VB.net in either .net framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 or 3.0.

 

[EvilManagedCare]

It's sounding like I need a book on Visual Basic 2005 as I read the posts and did some reading on Microsoft's site. Deitel's latest book looks good, but is a bit pricey.