I took a look at powerbasic's web site and it looks quite good (not as easy a RAD interface as VB though) and was wondering if anyone had tried it and had an opinion???

looks quit powerful

Small exe's and C like Dlls, fast code but no activeX support and maybe a lot of API work.

They don't have a demo version though and I'd rather not pay $180 for something I don't know much about.