I'm not offended by that, i only wanted to know why did you compared VB.NET with HTML, and also know if you coded something complicated with VB.NET (that program seems interesting, i did something similar in Java)...
I totally agree with you that is not the most wonderful thing (even when i have to do .NET coding, i prefer C#) and it does a lot of things for you when it comes to the GUI (except if you go for something else than windows, like the Solar System simulator with Directx 9 i was talking about), but outside the GUI, to use it correctly, one must leave VB6 thinking for a lot of things, learn Object Oriented sd, and study the .NET way, that's the not so easy part...
It was mainly the comparing to HTML thing, because VB.NET is a full-pledged object oriented language while HTML is barely a language...