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I urge you to get a look at the code and see just HOW cringeworthy it is. For science!

Ha, well it was written in VB.NET, so that alone ought to make me cringe. And I was building on my existing knowledge of VBA, so...

Apparently a few years ago they had a minor panic because they realised they had no idea where the database was actually stored. I'd gotten some MSSQL space from the (outsourced) DB guys- the guy who gave me the space had also, of course, left. Fun times...

i've seen some great software built in vb.net including a real time trading platforms capable of near high frequency execution speeds connected to 10 exchanges simultaneously.

i personally don't care for vb.net because of its notation, but i don't think it's THAT bad. you're making it sound like it was written in vb6

I wrote a manufacturing pull system in VB 6.0 + Access for the application database. That was all they had to work with there ( or more correctly all they wanted to work with.. ) It handled a stupid number of queries per month and was very reliable.

It's important to have good tools, but a robust design beats all imho.

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