from 1997 to 1999 Delphi 3 was my IDE of choice, but at the end of 1999 I got a Job as Visual Basic-Developer. Coming from Delphi, I was used to the very handsome Delphi-GDI-Classes TCanvas etc. I wanted this in VB to be more free, so I ported the Delphi classes to VB. Project started in june 2000