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Visual Basic Is A Third-Generation Event-Driven Programming Language

Visual Basic is a third-generation programming language and integrated development environment released by Microsoft in 1991 for building graphical user interface applications. It enables rapid application development using pre-built components. Programmers can create applications using the components provided in Visual Basic or develop their own third-party components. While support ended in 2008, many developers still prefer and use Visual Basic 6.0.

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Visual Basic Is A Third-Generation Event-Driven Programming Language

Visual Basic is a third-generation programming language and integrated development environment released by Microsoft in 1991 for building graphical user interface applications. It enables rapid application development using pre-built components. Programmers can create applications using the components provided in Visual Basic or develop their own third-party components. While support ended in 2008, many developers still prefer and use Visual Basic 6.0.

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Visual Basic is a third-generation event-driven programming language

and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its


COM programming model first released in 1991 and declared legacy in
2008. Microsoft intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and
use.[1][2]

Visual Basic was derived from BASIC


and 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.[3][4][5][6][7] 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.[8] In 2014 there were
tens of thousands of developers who
still prefer Visual Basic 6.0 over Visual
Basic .NET.[3][9] In 2014 some
developers lobbied for a new version
of Visual Basic 6.0.[10][11][12] [13] A
dialect of Visual Basic,
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), is
used as a macro or scripting language
within several Microsoft applications,
[14]

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