What is Visual Basic?

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Visual basic is a high level programming language developed from the earlier DOS version called BASIC. Although Visual Basic .NET has the main stage in current IT field, Visual basic hasn't lost it's powerful status among the programmers.

Visual Basic is an event-driven programming language. This is called because programming is done in a graphical environment unlike the previous version BASIC where programming is done in a text only environment and executed sequentially in order to control the user interface. Visual Basic enables the user to design the user interface quickly by drawing and arranging the user elements. Due to this spent time is saved for the repetitive task.

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Microsoft Visual Basic is a programming language and is considered RAD(rapid application development) software that is used for creating applications. Some other popular programming languages are C++, HTML, JAVA, SQL, PHP, DELPHI, etc...

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VB is a BASIC-based language that allows a programmer to make Windows applications very easily. It is probably the second easiest programming language (in my opinion). BASIC is the easiest. C++ is one of the hardest, but you can do anything with it.

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Visual Basic is a computer programming language developed by Microsoft. It was created to be an "English like language" that anyone can learn. Me being a programer in it, I would have to say it is a very easy language to learn. Its not a powerful language and is mainly used for databases, but you can make a few good programs with it.


 

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