The visual Basic (VB) is a programming language of the third generation operated a case and the connected environment of development (Ide) from Microsoft for it COM model programming. VB also consider rather easy to study and use the programming language, because of its graphic features of development and the BASIC heritage.

The visual Basic has been received from the CORE and fast applied development (RADIUS) of the graphic user interface (GUI) statements, access to databases allows, using Objects of Access of Data DAO, the Remote RADIO of Objects of Data or Objects of Data ActiveX, and creation of control facilities for ActiveX and objects. Languages Scripting, such as VBA and VBScript syntactically are similar Visual the Basic, but act in another way.



The programmer can connect the statement, using the components given Visual Basic is direct. The programs written in Visual Basic, can use also Windows, API, but performance so demands external declarations of function.

Final release was version 6 in 1998.

Development of the Visual Core

In 1991 has been entered VB 1.0. The project has been lowered to create the user interface from the generator of the form of the pre-production model developed by Alan Cooper and its company under the name the Tripod. Microsoft has concluded the contract with the Cooper and its partners to develop the Tripod in programmed system of the form for Windows 3.0, under the Ruby of the code name (any relation to the Ruby programming language).
The tripod did not switch on the programming language in general. Microsoft has decided to unite the Ruby with the Basic language to create the Visual Basic.

The ruby generator of the interface has provided a "visual" part Visual the Basic, and it has been united with the Enclosed BASIC engine "EB" developed for left system of a database "Omega" Microsoft. The ruby also has provided ability to load the dynamic libraries of communication containing additional control facilities (then named "gizmos") which became interface VBX later.