There are many reasons why you should convert from earlier versions of Visual Basic to Visual Basic 5. Some are technical, some motivational, and some personnel-related, but all of the reasons have one thing in common: they all enable you and your people to develop better applications faster. In this section, I will look at the reasons to convert. I have split the reasons into three areas: language features, improvements to the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and other, less easily categorized, reasons.