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Visual Basic (VB), originally called Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language, implemented on .NET, Mono, and the .NET Framework. Microsoft launched VB.NET in 2002 as the successor to its original Visual Basic language, the last version of which was Visual Basic 6.0.
Visual Basic 3.0 was released in the summer of 1993 and came in Standard and Professional versions. VB3 included version 1.1 of the Jet Database Engine that could read and write Jet (or Access) 1.x databases. Visual Basic 4.0 (August 1995) was the first version that could create 32-bit as well as 16-bit Windows programs. It has three editions ...
Mercury [1] (promoted as Modern Visual Basic) [1] [2] is a programming language developed by RemObjects Software. RemObjects extends VB.Net underlying language and plans to add more features to it. [3] Mercury is a commercial product and is the sixth language supported by RemObjects Elements Compiler toolchain, next to C#, Swift, Java, Go and ...
Visual Basic is a name for a family of programming languages from Microsoft. It may refer to: Visual Basic (.NET), the current version of Visual Basic launched in 2002 which runs on .NET; Visual Basic (classic), the original Visual Basic supported from 1991 to 2008; Embedded Visual Basic, the classic version geared toward embedded applications
Obvious syntax differences aside, Visual Basic .NET provides much the same functionality as C# (since they both compile down to MSIL, with the most obvious difference being the case insensitivity of Visual Basic .NET, maintaining the original case-insensitivity of Visual Basic), which is more of a problem for C# programmers trying to inter ...
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of Microsoft's event-driven programming language Visual Basic 6.0 built into most desktop Microsoft Office applications. Although based on pre-.NET Visual Basic, which is no longer supported or updated by Microsoft (except under Microsoft's "It Just Works" support which is for the full ...
BASICs with Bitwise Ops use -1 as true and the AND and OR operators perform a bitwise operation on the arguments.. FOR/NEXT skip means that body of the loop is skipped if the initial value of the loop times the sign of the step exceeds the final value times the sign of the step (such as 2 TO 1 STEP 1 or 1 TO 2 STEP -1).
Visual Basic is not case sensitive, which means that any combinations of upper and lower case letters in keywords are acceptable. Visual Studio automatically converts all Visual Basic keywords to the default capitalised forms, e.g. "Public", "If". C# is case sensitive and all C# keywords are in lower cases.