>I have just about finished the COM version of DataClas. This was done in Visual Basic, for very good reasons. There is a data intensive app that ships with the new version. And yes, that sample app was done in Visual Basic. And further, I developed a small framework in VB notwithstanding the lack of inheritance. So it can be done, you can build "hard core" data apps in VB, or whatever language you choose.

Hey John, I know that you are really busy these days, but if you or Duffy would like to give a VB chat session on some of the things you guys have learned in doing this project, that would be really cool.