One other thing that VB did well was integrate with Windows COM components. I was working on a scientific application at the time. Just for fun, I spent a half

One other thing that VB did well was integrate with Windows COM components. I was working on a scientific application at the time. Just for fun, I spent a half an hour to add a button on the data grids that would start Excel and push the data over. The scientists were more excited about the Excel integration than the actual statistical analysis features I was working on.