> VB does sound "worse" than Visual C++ for such a job Huh? No no, on the contrary: Straightforward CRUD apps, that's exactly what VB was built for and excels

> VB does sound "worse" than Visual C++ for such a job Huh? No no, on the contrary: Straightforward CRUD apps, that's exactly what VB was built for and excels at. Only Delphi is better. The thing about "Visual" C++ is that it isn't (or at least wasn't, last I looked) really very visual at all. And that sucks for building simple in-house CRUD apps, where the VB / Delphi drag-and-drop UI builder paradigm is a huge productivity multiplier.