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by raverbashing 4269 days ago
"Plus back in the day I found VB 6 quite limiting. "

This, exactly this.

The transition to .NET was a blessing, VB6 is really useless for anything else than "basic business apps" and even then!

IIRC you could only read/write a file (raw data) byte by byte (ok, that was before VB6, still...)