If you don't mind, would you explain this more? I don't understand the implications; VB does sound "worse" than Visual C++ for such a job, from an outsider perspective?
Huh? No no, on the contrary: Straightforward CRUD apps, that's exactly what VB was built for and excels at. Only Delphi is better.
The thing about "Visual" C++ is that it isn't (or at least wasn't, last I looked) really very visual at all. And that sucks for building simple in-house CRUD apps, where the VB / Delphi drag-and-drop UI builder paradigm is a huge productivity multiplier.
I wouldn't choose VB myself, but when it's between VB and C++ for simple data pushing, I would indeed choose VB.
Let's say it like this: if you need to move stuff, would you choose a F1 car or a minivan. I would pick the minivan.
If you were building an application that does little more than populate forms with data from a database and then update the database, VB was totally adequate. The most important part of the job was the DB and query design.