Interesting line of conversation. A number of years ago I lead a team of programmers to build and deploy an enterprise scale, COM based VB6 app. In the end we had thousands of classes with a few hundred dlls and exes. All told our code base was estimated at well over a million lines of hand written code. Our first deployment was in 2001 and the application is still in service and recieves yearly updates. Wouldn't choose to that again but... All that being said, I no longer use VB6 for any new projects and I agree with all of the concerns raised here over the loose and sometimes illogical behavior of VB as a language. It can be used as a powerful development tool, as we proved, but only with skilled and experienced programmers to reign-in the language. Its a shame when the language makes you work harder to be a good programmer. In twenty years of programming I think the programmer and his/her skill is more important than language.