| What
is Visual Basic?
Visual Basic is an rapid
application development software package for creating programs
for the Windows environment. Windows relies on event driven applications.
An event-driven application
first displays a window and then waits for the user to drive the
program. From then on, the user determines which part of the application
executes by selecting menu items, or clicking toolbar buttons.
Each click or selection by the user triggers an event in the application
which executes code to complete the desired action.
For applications to run on the Windows platform it is necessary
for them to handle events. Microsoft understood this complexity
involved in developing event-driven applications. To simplify
the development process they created Microsoft Visual Basic.
What does that mean?
Basically, visual basic is
used to create programs that run in Windows. It is useful because
it is faster and easier to use than most other programming languages.
What are some
examples?
I thought you would never
ask. You have seen and worked with programs created with, or designed
using VBasic. When you logged onto this computer you used a program
written in Basic language. Any time you see a familiar menu, or
dialogue window, it was most likely created with Basic.
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