[Chad Fairbanks]

This isn't about the client, since we dont have client's paying us for custom products - we have a product line, of which VB is used for user interface layers, which are part of not just a software package, but a hardware package as well. We dont' write code that is given to a client.

Any code written needs to be maintanable, since a year from now I, or another coder, may need to go back and fix, update, or otherwise modify what was written - and it's pain in the a$$ if you have to waste time trying to figure out what the original coder did, or why they did something, because they neglected to comment the code or otherwise document it etc...

Well documented, well-structured code should be the norm, not just 'if the client is paying for it'.

[zeromus]

This isn't about the client, since we dont have client's paying us for custom products

Then you can afford to do it right. But when you have a client directly, and a bid, and a budget, sometimes you can't. (sometimes is unhappily always ALL THE TIME in my case ;_;)