MS is holding a tech chat for VB.NET and D3D! on march 30th. Here are the details ...
Do you have questions about how to best use Visual Basic .NET to program DirectX 9.0 graphics? Are you unsure when to use a particular Direct3D feature? Join members of the Visual Basic and Windows Graphics & Gaming Technologies teams and discuss how to leverage the power of DirectX 9.0 from Visual Basic.
Here is the link...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/#vs_dirx0330