VB Powerpacks
There is an interesting new team that is building "power packs" for VB. The first of the two power packs (the Windows Interop Forms Toolkit) allows you to migrate VB6 apps to VB.NET one form at a time. This can only help with large VB6 projects that have been too hard to migrate all at once. The second power pack offers a PrintForm component. Many developers had used the PrintForm method on VB6 forms and the lack of this method in VB.NET caused some migration difficulties for those forms.
Both of these are good news.
In addition, the team is looking for suggestions for new power packs. Details of all of these can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/powerpacks/default.aspx.