Visual Basic is a third-generation event-driven programming language
and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its Component
Object Model (COM) programming model first released in 1991 and declared legacy
in 2008. Microsoft intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and
use. Visual Basic was derived from BASIC, a user-friendly programming language
designed for beginners, and it enables the rapid application development (RAD)
of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data
Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of
ActiveX controls and objects.
A programmer can create an application using the components provided
by the Visual Basic program itself. Over time the community of programmers developed
third party components. Programs written in Visual Basic can also use the
Windows API, which requires external function declarations.
The final release was version 6 in 1998 (now known simply as Visual
Basic). On April 8, 2008 Microsoft stopped supporting Visual Basic 6.0 IDE. The
Microsoft Visual Basic team still maintains compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0
applications on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 including R2, Windows 7,
Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and Windows 10 through its "It
Just Works" program. In 2014, some software developers still preferred
Visual Basic 6.0 over its successor, Visual Basic .NET. In 2014 some developers lobbied for a
new version of Visual Basic 6.0. In 2016, Visual Basic 6.0 won the technical
impact award at The 19th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards. A dialect of Visual Basic,
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), is used as a macro or scripting language
within several Microsoft applications,
System Requirements :
Windows 7, Vista, XP
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