Seeing that TheIrishCoder answered your questions already, I just wanted
to add that I got VS .NET last week and it has an amazing IDE. The first
couple of days I felt like a non-programmer, novice, know-nothing...
There is so much documentation to read on MSDN that it's a bit overwhelming.
There is an Upgrade-Wizard (converts VB6 to .NET), this helps you compare both versions and understand what's going on.
Also there are many sample projects which allow you to follow step by step .
Good luck.