I have never programmed VB, but a university course forcibly requires me to use it. Now, I’ve done VC++/Win32 programming before, but not the CLR(.NET). There’s this free IDE from Microsoft, Visual Basic.NET express, that I plan to learn on. Is that okay? I mean I’m not learning .NET stuff, it’ll be plain old Win32 with VB. Is that possible on that IDE? Will it require(read: force) me to use the .NET libraries instead? If yes, is there a free copy of VB 6 (or anything NOT NET) IDE still available? Excuse me if this sound noobish, but I really haven’t ever touched on VB or .nET development.
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If you have never learned old Win32 with VB aka VB6, I would advise you to skip it altogether and learn VB.net unless your end goal is to maintain legacy applications.
The concepts and libraries that you learn as part of VB.net will be transferable to C# which seems to be the most popular .NET language at the moment