What is the difference between legacy VB and VB.Net / VB.Net 2003 and VB.Net 2005?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vboriintroductiontovisualbasic70forvisualbasicveterans.asp

http://www.thescarms.com/VBasic/VB6vsVBNet.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/view.asp?url=/seminar/en/20030117Move2vbnet/manifest.xml

MSDN: Language enhancements in Visual Basic 2005 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/languageenhancements.asp) (compared to Visual Basic 2003)

Other Handy Links

(1) VB.NET Book Recommendations (http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?t=129624)
(2) .NET Tutor's Corner (http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=102)
(3) VB.NET Code Library (http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=103)
(4) The Officially Longwinded VB6 vs VB.NET Thread (http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?t=206150)
(5) Visual Studio 2008 Express Editons (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/) (which is free)
(6) Free eBook from MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/staythepath/additionalresources/introto2005/default.aspx)