Hi my friend
Take a look at any book store and see how many books available for VB to cover a wide spectrum of the language, COM/DCOM, ASP, SQL, WEB.
About the support you have MSDN and a lot of tech forums like this one. beside any new ActiveX control or API comes with VB sample code. also look at the high tech jobs ads in you newspaper.
This will give you an idea how easy to find resources and support when you use this language.
Visual Basic still Bill Gates's baby.
Good luck with it
Walid Magd
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