To get the most out of this book

We cover many different platforms and use cases of Visual Basic in this book. You should focus on the VB family members that make sense to you at the time of reading and revisit the book later to think about the other family members. No prior programming experience is required, but if you have programmed in another language, you will find VB comes easily to you.

Software/hardware covered in the book	Operating system requirements
VB.NET	Windows, macOS, or Linux
ASP.NET	Windows
VB6	Windows
VBA	Windows
VBScript	Windows

For VB6, we recommend you install Windows XP in a virtual machine such as VirtualBox.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.