The last few days have been incredibly productive for me, in terms of cranking out VB.NET XNA samples.
Not only did I post several new conversions, but I also managed to wrap up two that had been giving me trouble since day one. The Bloom PostProcess sample and the Billboard sample have both been a real pain to convert, and I had pretty much given up on both of them until just recently.
I've learned a lot from converting some of the recent samples (I've learned something from all of them really) and something in my brain clicked just enough to make me want to revisit those two samples mentioned above and wouldn't you know it... I was able to find the problems and get them working.
I hope to knock out the rest of the samples pretty soon so I can get started on converting the starter kits and the rest of the tutorials.