Visual Basic

Visual Basic (VB) is a Microsoft programming language and associated development environment that is specialized for development of Windows applications. VB is an event driven programming language that was originally released in 1991 with degrees of similarity to Microsoft’s QuickBASIC. VB rose to popularity among developers in the mid-1990s due to its visual user interface development tools. Visual Basic is a component of Visual Studio.NET.

Programmers using Visual Basic can write an application using components supplied within Visual Basic. VB is a programming language that is used heavily in business programming, competing directly with C++ and JavaScript. VB was created to allow programmers to easily create GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications while being an easy to learn programming language. VB is also capable of developing more complex applications by combining visually arranged components and controls on a form, using specific attributes and actions of the components and adding functionality through additional lines of code. A programmer will find VB simple in its code, since the programming language provides default attributes and actions defined for its components.

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