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Visual Basic

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Visual Basic is a name for a family of programming languages from Microsoft. It may refer to:

  • Visual Basic, 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
  • Visual Basic for Applications, an implementation of Visual Basic 6 built into programs such as Microsoft Office and used for writing macros
  • VBScript, an Active Scripting language based on VB6, actively maintained from 1996–2023