ALSO CALLED: VB and Microsoft Visual Basic DEFINITION: Visual Basic (VB) is a programming environment from Microsoft in which a programmer uses a graphical user interface (GUI) to choose and modify preselected sections of code written in the BASIC programming language.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Posted: 17 Jun 2004 | Published: 15 Jun 2004
SUMMARY:
The Radley Client Design Tool (CDT) is integrated within Visual Basic, allowing you to create a data collection application simply and quickly. It is provided as an "Add In" to the Microsoft Visual Basic development environment.
VISUAL BASIC DEFINITION (continued): Visual Basic (VB) is a programming environment from Microsoft in which a programmer uses a graphical user interface (GUI) to choose and modify preselected sections of code written in the BASIC programming language.
Since Visual Basic is easy to learn and fast to write code with, it's sometimes used to prototype an application that will later be written in a more difficult but efficient language. Visual Basic is also widely used to write working programs. Microsoft says that there are at least 3 million developers using Visual Basic.
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