Anger Wrote:well i thought vb6 would really only be good for guis and basic file manipulation, and from my experience making a gui in vb6 was easy - doing it in c++ was extremly hard, in fact i couldnt do it (very little proper training you see).

Actually, if you don't use MFC, it just takes a lot of effort - it isn't particularly hard, but very time consuming...
Eg, you have to write stuff like CreateWindowEx() etc to make windows/controls.
(but most people just use MFC)

vision Wrote:That doesn't mean your going to stop working on it in the future does it?

because with 3.50 OE on its way noone knows what new wee will discover

I doubt the RCO structure has changed much.  The format's quite limited anyway, in what it can do...