Hey just thought I'd throw my perspective in, try to help out with choices that are made.
I downloaded the trial of Dark Basic to see how it was compared to Visual Studio. To be quite honest I'm not sure I could switch from Visual Studio to Dark Basic simply because of the layout. I guess it's partially biased but when you're used to one type of setup, going to something different and new (or older in this case) is kind of hard to do.

I found that Dark basic was kind of hard to get into though just from the layout but if I had started with Db it could be a different story.

yes dear but if you want develop game like poker and other creative game so its not help full this all software you have develop in other application like java and ajex.

Thanks.