Development in VB6 was basically dragging and dropping controls onto a window or dialog box, setting properties on them, and then filling in snippets of code to

Development in VB6 was basically dragging and dropping controls onto a window or dialog box, setting properties on them, and then filling in snippets of code to tie things together. And "control" here means anything from simple labels and buttons up to database connections and embedded COM objects. Literally anybody could bang out a simple Windows .exe like nobody's business. It would have been really cool if Microsoft included it in the OS like they used to do with QBasic.