You are once again talking in your sleep because regardless of what it is called VB.NET is not backwards compatible with VB6 despite some similarities. That is one of many reasons why VB.NET is much faster and of course therefore better.
Umm maybe I'm missing something... but isn't that almost exactly what clockwerx said? He said VB.NET is different than VB (which is what you just said), so what are you arguing about?