I bought VB6 learning edition a while ago. I used it for the first couple weeks. After knowing what it could do I dropped it as quick as possible. My Opinion is that microsoft wanted another money maker. To me VB6 is absolutly useless. Now I am starting to program in C. C is used in almost all OS
VB is used in well Windows. Stay far away from Visual Basic, I've been there done that and regretted every second of my life I wasted using it.