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Brief history of visual basic

Visual Basic, of all the RAD tools out there has an interesting history. The earlier versions of VB or Basic as it was then was written by Bill Gates himself. At that time the processing speeds, the memory, the storage and media were different and so was basic. And all through the years Basic has evolved into a good RAD tool by adding many useful and great features. However, Visual Basic never got the top rating among programmers as it was thought to be a second to other products like Clipper in the DOS era and Delphi and C++ in the Windows era. It should be noted that each tool has a specific purpose and the language is built with that specific multiple purposes in mind. So, comparing tools with different development goals is not appropriate.

Visual Basic 6.0 is one of the most successful versions yet. In fact, when Microsoft announced that it was going to stop support for the product, it raised a huge uproar among the huge VB community.

However, all good things have to come to an end and no one is going to wait for us. If Microsoft feels VB.Net is the future, then that is the way to go.

The first version of Visual Basic was released in 1987. Since 1991, every year there has been a new release except in 94 and 95. With release of Visual Basic 6.0 in 1998, a hugely successful product, and version, Microsoft stopped further releases of Visual Basic and introduced a newer programming tool in 2001, VB.Net. While the name is similar, VB.Net requires new investments and almost no code reuse from VB 6.0. However, this impacts more the larger companies which have made large investments in product development. As for the programmer, it is widely accepted that VB.Net is certainly a powerful tool. For Microsoft it was necessary to release a new tool to leverage the .Net runtime.

Visual Basic 4 - Release - 1995

It supported the new windows 95 family of 32-bit operating systems. The Professional Edition could also compile code to run on the older 16-bit Windows 3.x systems. Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) was also announced in 1995. VBScript is used to write embedded code for inclusion in web pages, although not all web browsers will run VBScript.

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