OK, Pile On Guys!!!!!!!!

dilettante
You may find this article useful: Microsoft Data Development Technologies: Past, Present, and Future. While it intentionally marginalizes VB6 (being written for .Net users) the basic chronology is correct and the diagrams might be useful.
Thanks for the link

Bobbles
Did you know that a project will run merrily if you have both DAO and ADO both being used ?
Yes, well aware of it.

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Deprecated software (because of corporate desire to make more $$$) IMHO is one of the biggest problems going.
Do you keep maintaining the original code, or try and rewrite using whoever says is the latest and the greatest.
COBOL worked great, and there are still a lot of COBOL programs running.
Even C++ (which Microsoft has deprecated) is still being updated by Bjarne Stroustrup, and from my understanding is still the language of choice by Microsoft to write Windows OS -- go figure.
VB6 is deprecated, so I guess we all switch to NET and close the VB Classic forum.
What a shame. IMHO VB6 + API allowed you to do most anything, and quickly.
As you become an old fart like myself, and have been through several of these "newest and greatest", you finally finally reach a point of %^&$# it, I just keep doing what I was doing.