Microsoft Visual Basic 6 What's it All About, Alfie? Karl Moore
The most popular programming language in the world, Visual Basic has a long line of loyal followers. Whilst being an amazingly expensive piece of kit, it's also an astonishingly powerful program-creation environment, suitable for would-be programmers and professional developers alike.
As well as Visual Basic 6.0, the package contains Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 and SNA Server 4.0 - which will only install under Windows NT 4.0 - to show off VB's powerful database integration, especially with its enhanced SQL drivers.
In simple terms, VB allows users to develop applications in an intuitive graphical environment. As opposed to code-only C++, VB allows you to visually design forms - screens the user views - and add components - items such as check boxes and radio buttons - to gradually build up a graphical user interface.
Then, it's time to add the code, the techno-blabble that tells the program what to do when a user clicks a specified button. But VB's much-improved interface simplifies even this feature - with it automatically completing many component properties for you via the IntelliSense function, added in VB 5.0
