VBGamer

No, vb does not use MFC, since it is not dependent of the MFC runtime dll. Personally, I have not used MFC myself (only looked into it a little) and I've heard some people say it is great, and some say it sucks... Myself, I just don't think it's worth the time to learn it. And it DOES take time to learn. The whole idea behind it is that you should use the MFC library instead of hand conding your controls and windows, but why bother when there is VB? In my opinion, the way to go is to use VB foe what it's good at, and put the stuff that needs to go really fast into dll:s written in C++ (and called from VB). /Corre