Anyone who is familiar with VB.NET.  Is it similar to Java, which is using package, stuff.  I know Office 2007 is using it.  So, I better to learn it.

Oh yeah!  .NET population is definitely growing.  I don't know VB .NET or any of the .NET stuffs.  But my work place has a .NET team now (before, there was only Java).  When there are projects who require a short development time, they will let the .NET developers to do it.

So larrylee_00, are you a programmer yourself?  

There's a free simpilifed version provided by Microsoft called  Visual Basic Express 2005

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/

.net is surely a nice framework to build on. Personally I like C# more than VB.net.