There is no difference in using the VB gui or the Borland C++ one. If you can knock up your interface in 10 minutes with VB then it will be just as easy in Borland. It has code completion syntax checking, all the same stuff to make life easier. The difference is the underlying language. Borland at some point you will have to write in C++. VB provides a much higher level of abstraction while writing the actual code.

Having said this you would not write complex hardware drivers in VB. It is much easier to write such things in a LLL like C++. You could produce your interface in VB and then write the yucky stuff (Technical term) in C++ though but why add the complexity when there is no difference in the available IDE. Oc course some folks still use command line C++ compilers. Never understood that.

Wow, that is a pretty nice management team!
Where do I get one? I just buy my own tools and contract.