Visual Basic

Easy, Intuitive Programming

First appeared: 1991Designed by: Microsoft

A legacy-friendly event-driven language by Microsoft with a RAD visual designer for building Windows applications.

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OOPEvent-driven

Module Module1
  Sub Main()
    Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!")
  End Sub
End Module

Released by Microsoft in 1991. VB6 (1998) was the final COM-based version before .NET. VB.NET was succeeded by continued .NET support.

Type system: Static

Package Managers

NuGet

Frameworks

.NETWindows FormsWPF