And, for me, using Bruce McKinney's stuff[1] really helped fill the gaps. One of the things he said that really stuck with me was "Visual Basic makes 95% of the

And, for me, using Bruce McKinney's stuff[1] really helped fill the gaps. One of the things he said that really stuck with me was "Visual Basic makes 95% of the work really easy and 5% of the work impossible" (probably paraphrasing a bit). And then he'd go on to show you how to make a DLL in C++ that took care of the 5% and link it to your VB program. I stopped free lancing and making money off of VB somewhere between 5 and 6 so I wasn't really there for the whole transition to .Net. But before I found GNU and Linux I had a lot of fun with VB 4 and 5 and even managed to make a decent living from it for a while. [1] Bruce McKinney, Hard Core Visual Basic http://vb.mvps.org/hardweb/mckinney.htm http://vb.mvps.org/hardweb/mckinney.htm