Visual Basic

n. programming language for developing applications under a Windows environment

This article is about the Visual Basic language shipping with Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 and earlier. For the Visual Basic shipping with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, see Visual Basic .NET. Visual Basic (VB) is an event driven programming language and associated development environment from Microsoft for its COM  programming model. Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using DAO, RDO, or ADO, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects.  Scripting languages such as VBA and VBScript are syntactically similar to Visual Basic, but perform differently.
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<language> (VB) A popular event-driven visual programming system from Microsoft Corporation for Microsoft Windows. VB is good for developing Windows interfaces, it invokes fragments of BASIC code when the user performs certain operations on graphical objects on-screen. It is widely used for in-house application program development and for prototyping. It can also be used to create ActiveX and COM components.
Version 1 was released in 1991 [by Microsoft?].
Current version: 6, as of 1999-11-26.
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Visual Basic