Success Stories
Since its introduction, Visual Basic has become the premier choice for more than three million developers worldwide creating Windows-based applications. Learn more about the recent successes companies such as Fox Sports and Delphi Automotive Systems have encountered with this award-winning programming language:
Sound Dogs 
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 shortens the development cycle for Sound Dogs' E-commerce solution - boosting the company's visibility and significantly increasing revenue.
Bankers Trust Corporation
Bankers Trust develops a new investment management system using the InfraSet Component Framework and Microsoft Visual Basic.
Fox Sports
Fox Sports recently ended the rookie season for its new sports-scoring system built with Visual Basic and Windows NT Server 4.0. Learn how Fox scored a touchdown and an edge over the competition.
Firstwave Technologies
Netgain Sales, a Web/n-tier sales force automation solution written with Microsoft Visual Basic, improves communication with the entire sales force, including the channel -- while also improving the accuracy and efficiency of sales forecasts.
Delphi Automotive Systems
A division of General Motors, Delphi Automotive Systems is the world's most diversified automotive systems and component supplier, with more than 170,000 employees at 190 locations in 31 countries.
Belvac Production Machinery
Belvac Production Machinery, a Dover Diversified company, has a worldwide reputation for providing leading-edge necking and trimming machinery for the rigid-beverage-can packaging industry.
Sax mPower
Boeing automated its purchasing process through the Materiel Management System (MMS), a system using Sax mPower for Exchange in the creation, approval, and routing of purchase requisitions.
CMI-Competitive Solutions
CMI-Competitive Solutions, Inc. (CMI-CS) specializes in integrated management solutions for high-volume, repetitive manufacturers, primarily in the automotive-supplier environment.
Chrome Data Corporation
Chrome Data Corporations revs up its PC Carbook with Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0. Learn more about Chrome Data's easy-to-use and innovative software for providing accurate, up-to-date information on virtually all cars, vans, and light cars sold nationwide
General Motors Acceptance Corp.
General Motors Acceptance Corp., (GMACCM) one of the world's largest financial services companies, turned to Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 and Microsoft Office 97 to streamline its loan processing system.
Prudential Securities
This case study looks at how Prudential Securities retrained 400 developers in order to support its move to a combined Windows/CICS environment. The study describes the pilot program, the Visual Basic applications that the program graduates wrote, and the results of the program.
In Their Own Words...
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"In developing our latest InstallShield technologies, one of our goals is to
create a living and continually evolving product through the use of new
technologies such as Dynamic HTML. Visual Basic 6.0 provides the necessary
tools for us to quickly and easily leverage the advantages of these new
technologies."
-Thomas Tokarski, Director User Interfaces
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"Visual Basic 6.0 is the pre-eminent RAD tool for distributed application development. New features like the Data Envrironment designer, the Web Class designer, and Transaction Server Component debugging significantly reduce the amount of code and time it takes to create an enterprise-level mission-critical application with Visual Basic 6.0. I expect corporate developers and Web developers alike to be very excited by this release"
-Clarity Consulting, Inc.
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"Visual Basic 6.0 is an exciting new product. The new Web features give developers the power of the code-behind events metaphor in Visual Basic, complete with all the traditional IDE features that made Visual Basic a success," said William Storage, founder, NerveNet Inc., a Web design and development company. "These features represent a dramatic leap forward in the ongoing evolution of Web programming technology."
-NerveNet Inc.
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"I've been using Visual Basic since the beta for version 1.0, and the new WebClass technology might be the greatest leap forward this product has ever made."
-Joshua Trupin, MIND Magazine
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"The power of Visual Basic 6.0 with ADO 2.0 really enhanced our data access capabilities and made the move to support both Jet and SQL Server very easy. The other controls, such as the new date picker and enhanced grid, just added to the pleasure."
-Tim Carmichael, DAT Enterprises Limited
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"[Visual Basic 6.0] saves you the time of switching between multiple tools to manage your databases, tables, and data structures. There's also a lower learning curve for developers."
-Rockford Lhotka, Born Information Services
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