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12 unusual facts about Visual Basic


Ccoms

The programs utilized many of AOL's API functions to operate and were usually programmed in the Visual Basic language.

CodeView

It also shipped with Visual Basic for MS-DOS, Microsoft Basic PDS, and a number of other Microsoft language products.

Development speed

For example, Visual Basic has a high development speed but a poor application speed.

Fyracle

Examples are applications that have been developed in Visual Basic, Delphi or Oracle's Developer 2000 and that are easier to distribute and maintain with Fyracle than with the latest releases of Oracle.

Game of the Amazons

Michael Keller wrote the first computer program to play the Game of the Amazons in 1994 (in Fortran with a text interface; a later version was written in Visual Basic; see References).

John W. Ligon Middle School

Ligon also has electives that can be as specific as Flash software and Visual Basic programming.

UModel

UModel includes code engineering functionality including code generation in Java (programming language), C#, and Visual Basic, reverse engineering of existing applications, and round-trip engineering.

VB5

Visual Basic, a programming language and programming environment

VBdocman

VBdocman allows commenting and the automatic generation of technical documentation from Visual Basic 6 source code files.

Visual Basic

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is included in many Microsoft applications (Microsoft Office), and also in many third-party products like SolidWorks, AutoCAD, WordPerfect Office 2002, ArcGIS, Sage 300 ERP, and Business Objects Desktop Intelligence.

WHRO-TV

For example, students at the middle and high school levels compete in categories varying from web design to C++, Visual Basic and Java programmimng, as well as music composition and Computer Aided Design and Desktop Publishing and Desktop Presentations (PowerPoint).

WinDev

The source code is precompiled and interpreted at run time like Visual Basic, Java or C#.


Alfio Fazio

Interested in computer programming since 1991, he has worked on both PC and Mac platforms developing software using languages such as MAX, Visual Basic, Pascal, C and C++.

GNAVI

The inspiration for GNAVI is Delphi and Visual Basic, where the Pascal-family Ada programming language is utilized as a syntactically-similar substitute for Delphi's Object Pascal.

HelpNDoc

It also has the ability to generate code for the C++, Delphi, Fortran, Pascal and Visual Basic programming languages to ease the integration of the generated CHM help files with the application being developed.

Intelligent code completion

IntelliSense is now supported by the Visual Studio editors for C++, C#, J#, Visual Basic, XML, HTML and XSLT among others.

OPC Data Access

A standard Automation wrapper interface is also defined for access from Visual Basic, Delphi and other Automation enabled languages.

The Secret Guide to Computers

It includes updated and "new info on modern computer dealers, Windows 7, modern Web browsers (Internet Explorer 8&9, Firefox 4&5, and Chrome 12), best Websites, modern e-mail systems (Live Mail, Yahoo Mail, and Gmail), the iPad, Microsoft Office 2010, modern programming (in Java 6, QB64, Visual Basic 2010, Visual C++ 2010, and Visual C# 2010), axiomatic math, Spanish pronunciation, Bible translations, and fun stuff."

Very high-level programming language

The term VHLL was used in the 1990s for what are today more often called high level languages (no "Very"), such as Perl, Python, and Visual Basic.

Visual DialogScript

VDS programs have access to the Windows API; therefore, it is possible to write applications that can perform the same advanced tasks as other programming languages such as Visual Basic, C++, or Delphi.