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[VisualBasic], also known as VB, is the brand name MicrosoftCorporation use for their flavour of [BASIC]. Actually, it only vaguely resembles [BASIC] anymore, being far more complex, but is still quite a restricted ProgrammingLanguage compared to others. Don't use it if you have a choice.

A variant called VBA, ie "VisualBasic for Applications", is used to script MicrosoftExcel/Word documents, and as a side-effect, often used to write macro [Virus]es. Thanks, [Bill | BillGates]!

More recently, MicrosoftCorporation decided to reapply the VisualBasic brand onto something called __Visual Basic.NET__, which has nothing to do with [BASIC] and little with VisualBasic, and is basically [C#] using different syntax. Lots of VisualBasic developers got very angry at the loss of backwards compatibility.

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Last edited on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 6:48:56 am by AristotlePagaltzis

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