> One is the transparent intergration with COM I think this is one of the things detractors of VB kinda miss. You could build quite sophisticated software to l

> One is the transparent intergration with COM I think this is one of the things detractors of VB kinda miss. You could build quite sophisticated software to leverage COM/DCOM without needing to go full C/C++ and IDL. The place I worked at built software that ran inside Microsoft Transaction Server (latterly COM+) to exploit distributed transactions. And then there's the really "advanced" stuff you could do in VB as written about by Matthew Curland in his excellent book "Advanced Visual Basic 6: Power Techniques for Everyday Programs"[0]. Armed with a copy of Curland's book and Don Box's "Essential COM" you could be really dangerous :) [0]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Visual-Basic-Programming-DevelopMentor/dp/0201707128 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Visual-Basic-Programming-D...