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 (.NET), 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

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