Visual Basic (VB) is a high-level, visual programming language based on the BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) language, designed by Microsoft for building Windows-based applications. VB was one of the first products to provide a graphical programming environment and a paint metaphor for developing user interfaces. By dragging and dropping controls, such as buttons and dialog boxes, and then defining their appearance and behavior, the VB programmer is able to add a substantial amount of code without getting bogged down in syntactical details.
Although VB is not considered a true object-oriented programming language, it does embrace an object-oriented philosophy. It is sometimes called an event-driven language, because each object can react to different events.
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