Visual Basic
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- This is about VB 1.0-6.0, See Visual Basic .NET for the .NET Framework version.
Visual Basic is a programming language made by Microsoft. It is event-driven. It is an Rapid Application Development environment.
[edit] Timeline
- Visual Basic 1.0 for Windows (1991)
- Visual Basic 1.0 for MS-DOS (1992). It was not compatible with the Windows version.
- Visual Basic 2.0 (1992). It was hugely improvised.
- Visual Basic 3.0 (1993)
- Visual Basic 4.0 (1995). Included support for 16-bit and 32-bit applications; and it had classes.
- Visual Basic 6.0 (1998). Last version of the non-.NET Framework versions.
[edit] Criticism
Visual Basic has often been critisized for the COBOL-style syntax.
