Outline History of VB Derivative Languages Sample programs Rank Evaluation History Visual Basic 10 May 1991 was released for Windows From 10 to 60 VB was added more features and compatibilities with each version release ID: 661321
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Visual Basic .NET
By Khoa NguyenSlide2
Outline
History of VB
Derivative
LanguagesSample programsRankEvaluationSlide3
History
Visual
Basic 1.0 (May 1991) was released for
WindowsFrom 1.0 to 6.0, VB was added more features and compatibilities with each version release.VB 6.0 (Mid 1998) improved in a number of areas including the ability to create web-based applications.
Visual Basic .NET is Microsoft's designated successor to Visual Basic 6.0, and is part of Microsoft's .NET platform
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History
Microsoft Visual Basic for MS-DOS (Professional Edition
Version 1.0)Slide5
Derivative Languages
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
, etc. VBA
is largely the same language as VB6 and uses the same runtime library
.
VBScript
can be used in
Windows
scripting and client-side
web page
scripting. Although it resembles VB in syntax, it is a separate language and it is executed by vbscript.dll as opposed to the VB runtime
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Sample Programs…YES!Slide7
Rank
Programming
Community Index for November 2011 on
tiobe.comMost popular programming languages on devtopics.com
10 Programming Languages You Should Learn Right Now on
eweek.comSlide8
EvaluationSlide9
Readability: Excellent
Extremely close to English
Use color coding (through Visual Studio)Slide10
Writability: Great
Extra characters & letters to write
NOT Case sensitive
Drag & Drop (Visual Studio feature)Auto-complete with intellisense (Visual studio
feature)Slide11
Reliability: High
Part of .NET framework, a highly reliable platform
Runs in Windows, a huge OS widely used throughout the marketSlide12
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, J. P.
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Trescowthick
, M. (2004). Visual Basic/Coding Standards.
Wikibooks
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Kimmel, P. (2002, March 08).
Working with new abstract data types in visual basic net
. Retrieved from
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www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=25868
Mabbutt
, D. (
n.d.
).
Early binding and late binding
. Retrieved from
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visualbasic.about.com/od/usingvbnet/a/earlybind.htm
Visual
Basic (2011).
Wikipedia
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic
Visual
Basic Naming Conventions
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0b283bse(v=VS.100).aspx