> Professionally VB6- was however too limiting and its purpose seemed to be mostly churning out CRUD data entry screens faster than ever I beg to differ. I wor

> Professionally VB6- was however too limiting and its purpose seemed to be mostly churning out CRUD data entry screens faster than ever I beg to differ. I worked on a lot of VB5/6 code between 1997 and 2002, during that time we did some fairly sophisticated things. At one banking/finance gig I wrote a large amount of code that ran inside Microsoft Transaction Server and COM+, support for this was rather impressive. At another gig I wrote front ends for a document scanning server written in Java - we had a COM/CORBA bridge etc. We did image scanning and manipulation in VB 6 without a lot of fuss. There was also a rich and diverse market for third party controls, widgets and libraries. Hell, if you knew what you were doing you could hook directly into the windows message pump, subclass and create your own windows. Take a look at Matt Curland's "Advanced Visual Basic 6" which was published in 2000, VB6 was no toy: http://powervb.com/ http://powervb.com/