Abstract is: The original Visual Basic (also referred to as Classic Visual Basic) is a third-generation event-driven programming language from Microsoft known for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model first released in 1991 and declared legacy during 2008. Microsoft intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use. 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. Programs written in Visual Basic can also make use of the Windows API, which requires external functions declarations. The final release was version 6 in 1998. 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 through its "It Just Works" program on supported Windows operating systems. In 2014, some software developers still preferred Visual Basic 6.0 over its successor, Visual Basic .NET. Visual Basic 6.0 was selected as the most dreaded programming language by respondents of Stack Overflow's annual developer survey in 2016, 2017, and 2018. A dialect of Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), is used as a macro or scripting language within several Microsoft and ISV applications, including Microsoft Office.
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BASIC | Q42979 |
P11196 | Baidu Tieba name | vb |
P12204 | ELMCIP ID | 10513 |
P1417 | Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID | technology/Visual-Basic |
P3381 | File Format Wiki page ID | Visual_Basic |
P646 | Freebase ID | /m/0fp_1y |
P8408 | KBpedia ID | VisualBasic |
P244 | Library of Congress authority ID | sh2013001451 |
P6366 | Microsoft Academic ID | 2777315864 |
P856 | official website | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-basic-6/visual-basic-6.0-documentation |
P3417 | Quora topic ID | Visual-Basic-programming-language |
P4342 | Store norske leksikon ID | Visual_Basic |
P600 | Wine AppDB ID | 94 |
P6293 | YSA ID | Y106307 |
P2347 | YSO ID | 15534 |
P3553 | Zhihu topic ID | 19569722 |
P144 | based on | QuickBASIC | Q1056057 |
P4969 | derivative work | Visual Basic Script | Q13743 |
Visual Basic | Q50077 | ||
Visual Basic for Applications | Q667566 | ||
P178 | developer | Microsoft | Q2283 |
P1889 | different from | Visual Basic | Q50077 |
P747 | has edition or translation | Visual Basic 6 | Q19367195 |
P571 | inception | 1991-01-01 | |
P1705 | native label | Visual Basic | |
P400 | platform | Microsoft Windows | Q1406 |
P3966 | programming paradigm | object-oriented programming | Q79872 |
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P1072 | readable file format | VisualBasic Project | Q76142694 |
VisualBasic Form (v6.0) | Q105855178 | ||
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P1366 | replaced by | Visual Basic | Q50077 |
P910 | topic's main category | Category:Visual Basic | Q9315020 |
P1073 | writable file format | ActiveX License Package file | Q49989460 |
VisualBasic Project | Q76142694 | ||
VisualBasic Form (v6.0) | Q105855178 | ||
VisualBasic Form (v3.x) | Q105855309 | ||
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