The Visual Basic Family of Programming Languages
People have been programming Visual Basic for over 23 years. Microsoft has deployed Visual Basic in many different environments over the years, including Windows Desktop development with Classic Visual Basic and Visual Basic.NET Windows Forms. Visual Basic has also been used as a server-side programming language in Classic ASP and ASP.NET. Visual Basic for Applications has been used to embed Visual Basic in both Microsoft Office products along with many third-party products. Lastly, many scripts have been used to control specialized hardware or automate administrative tasks. You will walk away from this chapter with a strong foundation to meet your Visual Basic requirements.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- Visual Basic.NET Windows Forms
- Visual Basic Classic
- Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
- Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
- Classic ASP
- ASP.NET