One thing that i think would be very useful would be for VB to have inherent database support at the language/core level with the IDE being able to edit tables, etc. Essentially something similar to what tools like dBase/FoxPro/Visual dBase/etc but also being a generic application development tool like VB.
Visual Basic did have some database support but the actual database functionality/engine relied on external engines instead of being part of the runtime itself and it wasn't really part of the language. Being able to define a data type that is transparently mapped to a table's columns in a database and variables being cursors in a database would help with a bunch of smaller scale applications.
Basically something that mixed VB and Access. Ssadly that'd mean one would cannibalize the other's sales so it was never done.
Visual Basic did have some database support but the actual database functionality/engine relied on external engines instead of being part of the runtime itself and it wasn't really part of the language. Being able to define a data type that is transparently mapped to a table's columns in a database and variables being cursors in a database would help with a bunch of smaller scale applications.
Basically something that mixed VB and Access. Ssadly that'd mean one would cannibalize the other's sales so it was never done.