I programmed VB from the first version up to vb.net to me it had these big draws 1) REALLY good documentation, this was the peak of MSDN. 2) object orientatio

I programmed VB from the first version up to vb.net to me it had these big draws 1) REALLY good documentation, this was the peak of MSDN. 2) object orientation for ui component reuse just made so much more sense than message queues in c/c++ 3) out of the box ui that looked like a windows app. easy to make something that looked like users expectation of a windows app 4) speed of design and iteration. you could build new ui really quickly, and iterate with the edit/continue feature 5) it was cheap compared to other products, and continued to evolve with new versions on a regular basis. it had momentum