Back in the day, we were building COM components in C++ with the STL. One of the discoveries is you could build out the same COM component in VB and maybe take

Back in the day, we were building COM components in C++ with the STL. One of the discoveries is you could build out the same COM component in VB and maybe take only a 5% hit to performance. Was one of those 'we are not telling anyone we can do this' moments. Beyond the UI portion, it had some really powerful capabilities.