using VB .NET set up

I am just starting out with using the .NET development to do VB development. How are projects developed under the previous version opened with the VB .NET development environment? It seems all I have to build the project with is the .vbp or the .vbw but when I try to open these files in the .NET IDE and it doesn't seem to work at all. I looked at the [b]About[/b] window of my .NET IDE and it seems I have C ++ .NET installed but not VB. At work the collection of installation discs I have includes two yellow Visual C++ .net disks and 3 light blue MSDN LIBRARY disks and a Visual Studio Prerequisite disc. The box that everything comes in is Microsoft C++ .net standard. I guess there is a whole other product I need to buy (or have my boss buy)? Didn't 6.0 include everything -- both C++ and VB?

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Solitaire21y ago
The .NET 2003 "Standard" editions included only ONE language - either VB, C#, or C++. That was the least expensive edition, equivalent to the "Express" edition of Visual Studio 2005, which also includes only one language.

If you want all the languages, you needed to obtain the "Professional" Edition of Visual Studio.NET 2003. This is equivalent to the "Standard" edition of Visual Studio 2005, which makes it a bit confusing.

The 2003 "Enterprise" edition is equivalent to the 2005 "Professional" edition.

The Express editions of Visual Studio 2005 are free for the downloading, so you can get your copy of VB and also be up to date on the latest edition.