.NET needed to do, Microsoft decided

In the meantime, Java, Python, and a whole lot of other programming languages that WERE object oriented started to appear. Visual Basic was getting passed up - big time! This is a situation Microsoft does not tolerate ... and they resolved to solve the problem once and for all. The solution is .NET.
But to do the things that .NET needed to do, Microsoft decided that they had to "break compatibility". That is, Visual Basic programs had been (with very minor exceptions) "upward compatible" from VB1 right up to VB6. A program written in that first version of VB would still compile and run in the next version. But with VB.NET, Microsoft found they just couldn't make the language completely OOP and maintain upward compatibily.
Once they made this fundamental decision, the flood gates opened on ten years of accumulated "wish list" changes and ALL of them went into the new VB.NET. As they say in Britain, "In for a penny, in for a pound."
Without further delay, here's my very personal list of the top five changes from VB6 to VB.NET in reverse order.
Wellllll .... just one further delay. Since we're changing from VB6, where an array declared as Dim myArray(5) has 6 elements, We have six of 'em. It's only fitting