Its 6. And I'm glad you brought that up. I was also wondering why they named it .NET and what the differences are.
I know it seems like why is this guy in here asking these dumb questions. Well I am a good programmer. I just don't pay attention much to headlines and stuff like that.
Also, if you starting to devlop projects in VB I would use .NET. It is a pain in the a$$ so convert from VB6 to .NET. I am converting a 12,000 line VB6 app to VB.NET and it is a very slow and painful process!