My favorite part about Visual Basic was the help files. They were absolutely great for someone learning to code. From what I remember, there was a snippet of example code for basically everything.
This video is pretty lengthy but well worth a watch; the oral history of Alan Cooper, the 'father of Visual Basic'<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wtGFgaKYI0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wtGFgaKYI0</a><p>EDIT: One highlight is where Alan Cooper gets a cease-and-desist letter from Microsoft for calling himself 'The Father of Visual Basic'...<p><a href="https://youtu.be/-wtGFgaKYI0?t=9666" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/-wtGFgaKYI0?t=9666</a>
The '90s were full of ballyhoo about object orientation and "soon we'll be bolting together software with off-the-shelf components."<p>Thanks to the failure to standardize C++ ABIs (among other reasons) that didn't happen... except for VBXs. You really could throw together a CRUD app pretty quickly with off-the-shelf VBX controls.