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Visual Basic
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Visual Basic is a third6generation e)ent6dri)en programming language and
integrated de)elopment en)ironment (23&) from icrosoft for its =4
programming model Arst released in /77/# icrosoft intended Visual Basic to
be relati)ely easy to learn and use#B/CB.C Visual Basic was deri)ed from B-!2=
and enables the rapid application de)elopment (R-3) of graphical user
interface (>,2) applications, access to databases using 3ata -ccess 4b5ects,
Remote 3ata 4b5ects, or -cti)e? 3ata 4b5ects, and creation of -cti)e?
controls and ob5ects#
- programmer can create an application using the components pro)ided by
the Visual Basic program itself# 4)er time the community of programmers
ha)e de)eloped new third party components, keeping this programming
language to modern standards#B9CB0CBDCB"CB@C +rograms written in Visual Basic
can also use the Windows -+2, which re(uires e'ternal function declarations#
Furthermore, new third party functions (which are open source) using part
VB" source code and part embedded machine code, make the Visual Basic
"#$ applications faster than those designed in =EE#B9CB;C
The Anal release was )ersion " in /77; (now known simply as Visual Basic)#
Though Visual Basic "#$ 23& is unsupported as of -pril ;, .$$;, the Visual
Basic team is committed to F2t Gust WorksH compatibility for Visual Basic "#$
applications on Windows Vista, Windows !er)er .$$; including R., Windows
@, and Windows ;#B7C 2n .$/0 there are hundreds of thousands of de)elopers
who still prefer Visual Basic "#$ o)er Visual Basic #%&T#B9CB/$C oreo)er, in
recent years some de)elopers lobbied aggressi)ely for a new )ersion of
Visual Basic "#$#B//CB/.CB/9C B/0C - dialect of Visual Basic, Visual Basic for
-pplications (VB-), is used as a macro or scripting language within se)eral
icrosoft applications, including icrosoft 4Ice#B/DC