> VB 6.0 was the most productive IDE for small businesses that didn't have the budget for a software department. This is one of the reasons I really dislike wo

> VB 6.0 was the most productive IDE for small businesses that didn't have the budget for a software department. This is one of the reasons I really dislike working on old VB apps. Some guy who worked for the company 20 years wrote an app in VB6 and they had an intern port it to VB .NET a few years later. The code is spaghetti and no one knows is left that even worked on the app. Beyond that, no one really knows how it is supposed to work but they they're using it to run their business. That's been my experience with just about every single VB application that needed to be maintained or moved to a new platform. Granted, the same probably holds true for any application that's developed in an ad-hoc manner with no planning or requirements. VB just make that approach particularly easy.