>Do you implement multithreading in VB? I know that it can be done, but it's not pretty. In fact, the code I have seen to do this is downright scary.

It ain't exactly a piece of cake in C++, either. Oh, sure, just call CreateThread() and point it to the address of your start routine, right? Easy enough for trivial projects, but the complexity shoots up rapidly for non-trivial code.

>I would say that stating 'in VB you can spawn new threads at will' might be a little misleading.

I would tend to agree. There's a vast distance between changing a selection in an option group in the BUILD dialog and writing the code yourself.