What is visual basic?
What are it's best features?
What are it's worst features?
What is it's purpose?
Four answers:
Jack Robinson
2009-11-25 08:55:32 UTC
Visual Basic is a programming environment designed to help you create programs that run on Windows PC's. The beauty of Visual Basic is that you can create professional and user friendly applications much more quickly than you can with other programs. If you have used Access in development mode before (Forms / Reports etc) then this will give you an idea. In fact most programs below a certain level of complexity can be created with Microsoft Access and it includes Visual Basic elements that allow you to program.
VB allows you to add components to a page and then access properties and code snippets within a structured environment - i.e making it easier for you! The worst features of VB is stability and that the programs you create require a library of other programs to run. The program you create is not actually turned into a real program but is interpreted by another program before it is run (Microsoft .net runtimes etc.) however for most situations (you are not trying to create a national medical database) VB is an excellent start for creating programs.
So the purpose is to create Windows applications quick and fast that look like windows applications!
I would though say if you are new to programming that you maybe better served looking at PHP / MYSQL and programming via the web. We are all eventually going to live in a cloud where programs are not stored on our machines but in Googles data centers and PHP is a fantastic language, free of charge and there are limitless tutorials / how-tos online.
Let me know what you want to create and ill tell you if VB isn't suitable...
Sparo1
2009-11-25 09:09:18 UTC
Visual Basic is a type of high level programming language. It is visual object oriented version of Basic, which as the name implies is not a very powerful language (although it has become better over the years). Best features are probably the easy syntax. I'd say that is its syntax is its worst feature as well because if you decide to move to a more popular language like c/c++ it can get confusing.Its purpose is to design computer programs.
Naresh
2009-11-26 05:39:05 UTC
What is visual basic?
Visual Basic is a Visual programming language and IDE (Integrated Development Environment) developed by Microsoft Corporation for rapid application development. Its based on the well known language BASIC (Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code).
What are it's best features?
Its best feature is its ability to develop application rapidly. You can develop your application with least knowledge of programming. And also it can let you to use active-x controls developed with other programming language and VB can be also used to develop Active-x control, DHTML pages etc.
What are it's worst features?
Its worst feature is that it can not be used for system programming and the application developed with VB is slightly slower than the application developed in C language. And VB application required some VB Runtime components to run.
What is it's purpose?
Its main purpose is rapid application development. It lets you create your application in least time.
See its documentation found in msdn.microsoft.com for more information.