What if there was a NEW vb6

[Niya]

I don't think you have tried to use .net since version 1.1 of something as this bares no resemblance to my experience.

.Net just works i have never ever had to repair the framework and i have never come across a customer who has either!

Also you have a lot more parts and tools then you ever did with VB6 and with many other languages.

Same here. The irony here is that I've had these problems with VB6. ActiveX breaking all over the place with fits of cryptic errors like "Automation error". And that ****** package and deployment did a piss poor job of resolving dependencies. You always ended up making a batch files to register this and that. It took forever to add the missed dependencies to the wizard so writing a batch file was far less painful. I for one am glad I'm done with the mess called VB6. I've never had these troubles with .Net. NEVER! MS did a really great job with .Net.