Wow, thank you, it's great to hear your story. Actually, the apology at the end of my post wasn't about Visual Basic as a whole, but the VBX interface specific

Wow, thank you, it's great to hear your story. Actually, the apology at the end of my post wasn't about Visual Basic as a whole, but the VBX interface specifically. People did use it to build a lot of nifty controls and extensions, but the interface itself wasn't the best-designed thing in the world, and Microsoft eventually replaced it with COM/OCX. Hmm... Not sure if that was an improvement!