At the height of VB6 usage, there was no VB.net or Visual Studio. There was the VB6 windows binary that was a GUI form builder and IDE. ASP was brand new and

At the height of VB6 usage, there was no VB.net or Visual Studio. There was the VB6 windows binary that was a GUI form builder and IDE. ASP was brand new and for web development, so there was not much overlap in the dev community. I don't think it was even possible to write VB code in a simple text editor and compile that without the VB IDE. Cold Fusion and Power Builder were similarly corporate controlled and suffered the same fate. A C programmer during the same time period saw almost no changes to their language or job opportunities.