It sounds like you're describing VB4 and below. In VB5+, the underlying object model was COM, and you absolutely could define and instantiate classes. Many buil

It sounds like you're describing VB4 and below. In VB5+, the underlying object model was COM, and you absolutely could define and instantiate classes. Many built-in types for common operations also had to be instantiated - e.g. Collection, or anything to do with database access.