I've been having problems with Visual Basic applications under Wine at first under VNC, then more lately, also when running them against X servers from the LTSP 4.2 project.

Here's some illustrations of how bad the font rendering was looking as run against a VNC server and how much improvement there has recently been.

Version 0.9.16
 Version 0.9.21
Sample image of bad font renderingThe green text is partially scrambled.
 Again, Much better. (but bolder than before) Here I'm seeing better font rendering, but it is bolder than before.  I'm not sure where to
A VB Button with Font Rendering problemThe black text is partially scrambled.
 Much better than before

Font rendered better but placement may be off. Note that the green font seems bolder than it should be. Here the font is

Thanks for the improvements!
-Joe Baker
NEL Frequency Controls, Inc.