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Description: This definition defines Visual Basic (VB), a programming environment from Microsoft that uses graphical user interfaces to choose and modify selected objects written in the BASIC programming language. The characteristics and features of VB are listed as well as its benefits, uses and history.

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Visual Basic (VB) is an event-driven programming language and environment from Microsoft that provides a graphical user interface ( GUI ) which allows programmers to modify code by simply dragging and dropping objects and defining their behavior and appearance. VB is derived from the BASIC programming language and is considered to be event-driven and object-oriented .

VB is intended to be easy to learn and fast to write code with; as a result, it is sometimes called a rapid application development ( RAD ) system and is used to prototype an application that will later be written in a more difficult but efficient language.

The last version of VB, Visual Basic 6, was released in 1998, but has since been replaced by VB .NET , Visual Basic for applications (VBA) and Visual Stuido .NET . VBA and Visual Studio are the two frameworks most commonly used today.

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