Moving from MS-Access to MySQL in VB.Net

I have a School Administration System , written in VB.Net, which used MS-Access. Needless to say, that was a bad decision. OK - a very bad decision. Finally, I decided to move out to MySQL. Why MySQL? Well, because my server is set up to be Linux, and I wanted all the data on all the computers to come from one place. So, first, I read up the whole of www.vbmysql.com, without which I would still be wondering about where to start from. Mike Hillyer has done an excellent job in putting that website together.