Hmm Yoda, sound like you do!

I remember using VS 6 many, many years ago and that seemed to be the sweet-spot for me.

Last year I was interviewing candidates for a VB Programmer and was horified how little they understood the environment - e.g creating database connections via the IDE but not knowing what a recordset was!

It was a long and worrying process but we got there in the end and found an absolute diamond of a programmer.

Until you've used a text editor, a compiler or interpreter then I really don't think these people should call themselves programmers/software developers.