yeah it sucks, even worst with 2008. You can speed it a little bit if you disable all web features in.. but, it's still really slow on most of my machines here. BUt once the code is compiled and works, that's nice.

The major point i guess is more about Vista compatibility. Not sure enough how bad/good most VB6 program will behave with. Still good in XP in most case. .NET is not bad, it's just a bit had to move on and to understand the whole new syntax/traps.