Visual Basic Explained

Visual Basic is a name for a family of programming languages from Microsoft. It may refer to:

• Visual Basic, the current version of Visual Basic launched in 2002 which runs on .NET
• Visual Basic (classic), the original Visual Basic supported from 1991 to 2008
• Embedded Visual Basic, the classic version geared toward embedded applications
• Visual Basic for Applications, an implementation of Visual Basic 6 built into programs such as Microsoft Office and used for writing macros
• VBScript, an Active Scripting language based on VB6, actively maintained from 1996 - 2023