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Visual Basic was first released by Microsoft in 1987 as the first visual development tool from the company to compete with other programming languages like C and Pascal. It provides many tools that make creating applications easier by writing less code. As both a programming language and graphical development environment, Visual Basic allows users with little experience to quickly develop Windows applications using objects like spreadsheets. It is ideal for developing applications for Windows 95 and can be used in many areas like education, business, science, and more.

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Visual Basic was first released by Microsoft in 1987 as the first visual development tool from the company to compete with other programming languages like C and Pascal. It provides many tools that make creating applications easier by writing less code. As both a programming language and graphical development environment, Visual Basic allows users with little experience to quickly develop Windows applications using objects like spreadsheets. It is ideal for developing applications for Windows 95 and can be used in many areas like education, business, science, and more.

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History

Microsoft released Visual Basic in 1987. It was the first visual development tool from Microsoft, and it was to compete with C, C++, Pascal and other well-known programming languages.
What Is Visual Basic?

Programmers have undergone a major change in many years of programming various machines. For example what could be created in minutes with Visual Basic could take days in other languages such: as "C" or "Pascal". Visual Basic provides many interesting sets of tools to aid you in building exciting applications. Visual Basic provides these tools to make your life far more easier because all the real hard code is already written for you.

significant Language Features


Visual Basic is not only a programming language, but also a complete graphical development environment. This environment allows users with little programming experience to quickly develop useful Microsoft Windows applications which have the ability to use OLE ( Object Linking and Embedding ) objects, such as an Excel spreadsheet. Visual Basic also has the ability to develop programs that can be used as a front end application to a database system, serving as the user interface which collects user input and displays formatted output in a more appealing and useful form than many SQL versions are capable of.

Areas of Application
Using Visual Basic's tools, you quickly translate an abstract idea into a program design you can actually see on the screen. VB encourages you to experiment, revise, correct, and network your design until the new project meets your requirements. However , most of all, it inspires your imagination and creativity. Visual Basic is ideal for developing applications that run in the new Windows 95 operating system. VB presents a 3-step approach for creating programs: 1. Design the appearance of your application. 2. Assign property settings to the objects of your program. 3. Write the code to direct specific tasks at runtime. Visual Basic can and is used in a number of different areas, for example:

Education Research Medicine Business

Commerce Marketing and Sales Accounting Consulting Law Science

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