I am a professional full time developer and a part time porno webmaster.
With VB I created several industrial machine management applications, telephony applications, alarm systems with all kinds of sensors you can imagine, multicamera video surveillance applications, remote management through telephone, SMS or web, just to name a few. Give me a machine with a serial port or IP interface and I will control it through a PC. I also created all kinds of "normal" applications (a database and the insert/save/edit/delete shit).
For my webmaster activity I created a VB aplication that reads my local database of pictures and links to sponsor hosted galleries, creates the galleries from templates on a per sponsor/niche basis, creates the indexes and uploads it to my 28 domains. When it finishes, the app crawls my sponsors pages and mixes the data with my local index. Then this data will be uploaded to my mysql database on the webserver to feed my search engine. This process takes about 12 hours, but in the end I have over 82.000 html unduplicated pages on my webserver, fully optimized for search engines - all my sites are PR5/6.
I am also building a new house fully controlable from another VB set of applications (almost finished). Lights, shutters, custumizable alarm system, outdoor CCTV, distributed video, distributed audio, distributed infrared controls, indoor temperature control, outdoor humidity (for grass and garden) can all be controled through the PC, infrared, phone, SMS and Web. (They can also be controled the conventional way by pressing buttons, so everything is fine even if the computer explodes!!!)
It really makes me laugh when I hear people saying that VB sucks and C++ and Java rocks. C++ is good if you are writing drivers, for example, when you need direct access to the hardware. But if you need it, why don´t they programm in assembler? Java is a marketing success, it really sucks (I think it is successeful because Sun tried to fight Microsoft)
VB ROCKS 