[cellarius]

I was quite in the same situation when I started to look into xF. Always worked with vB, and with the plugin system I knew how to get things done quickly. And one really gets used to that... With xF you have to start from scratch, since things indeed are done differently. But once you wrap your head around it (and it did not take me too long to do some basic stuff), it is much more flexible than the plugins. And since the plugins are history with vB5 anyway, I chose to rather invest my time there. What vB5 clearly misses is even the most basic documentation for coders, let alone full-blown articles or tutorials. That's what allowed me to succeed in my first steps with xF, while I'm just confronted with an empty articles section on vB5 here on vb.org, and I have the distinct feeling that even those who should know the software best (the guys at vb.com) have not really worked out how to code addons for vB5.