It's My Virtual Basic. Review on Microsoft Visual Basic

Well, As my previous review I thought it was not enough for everybody to understand..... right? So here I come up with this new review I hope so you all will like it....

To learn VB there is no need of learning any other language. Today I know total 23 Programming Languages. My first language which I learn was Basic after Basic I learn HTML and after HTML I learn VB. I came to know VB in 1998 with version 5.0, and today I know VB 6.0. Microsoft always promot it's product and Microsoft come with VB.Net on 13th Feb. 2002. I know total 20 Languages and I found that if anyone want to learn VB there is no need of learning any other language.

Now we will talk about the features of Visual Basic.

INSTALLATION: Installation of VB is very easy. You son't have to do anything just click on Next and you will get VB.

IDE: IDE is called as Integrated Development Environment. VB has IDE and it is so much user friendly that if you want to place Button or say Text Box you have to just drag and drop from the tool box which is placed on the left side. It has great GUI support.

MENU: In VB user will fing lot's of menus for programming every thing in VB is handle by menu. There are lot's of menus like Debuging menu, Project Menu, Help menu, Add-Ins menu and lots....

DEBUGING: I have found that the Debuging tool of VB is really easy to use and it is really fast and with more options other than those debuging tools of VC++ or say Java & C. If you have dought in some line just place your cursor to that line and click on Toggle Breakpoint which is placed in Debug menu. and than run application. when compiler comes to that line where we placed the breakpoint it will stop and you can check the value of variables from the Immediate window placed at bottom when you run your application.

COMPILE AND RUN: In other languages like VC++ or Java If you want to test your application you have compile it to and after that only you can check but in VB just press F5 key and VB compiler will test your application but it will not compile your application. It has lot's of compiler options like If you want to make application which is capable of Multilanguage so in other languages you have change the whole thing while in VB just give the conditions to VB that If user select English do this or that. This is the great feature in VB.

CODING: VB's coding environment is simple but great with all the functions it's comes with white page where you have to type all your codings.. when you type something which is syntax after typing syntax if you press spacebar you will get tool tip text that what to type... and when you some procedure it turns to color Blue and if syntax is wrong it will turn to Red so need to compile or test your application while coding.. coz if you write wrong syntax you will get syntax in red color. When you write some sysntax for say label just type the name of the label that you gave and put ''.'' and press spacebar you will get the list of all the events that label can do. (e.g. label1. ).

Components: VB comes with lots of components. Components are the tool which are used to make your application more feturable. There are lot's of components, (e.g. Winsock for comunicating with other Computer. Communication Control for comunucating with Modem. etc...)

Add-Ins: It has great Add-Ins, one of the best is Win API. (i.e. Windows Application Programming Interface.) You will not understand what is API coz you need to know the knowledge of at least one programming language. There are lot's of other add-ins like Visual Data Manager for database creating, Visual Sorce Safe for keeping your CODES safe from unauthorize people.

COM-Components: VB has a great feature on COM-Components. COM-Components let your application compunicate with other application. like If you want to add grammer check fac. in your application you can add COM-Component to your application and you can get that feature from other application like Microsoft Word or say Star Office's word processor.

Advantages: VB has lot's of advantages.. that it has great IDE, GUI. easy coding, great debuging tool, lot's of components, COM-Components, Add-Ins like Visual Source Safe and Data Manager and API. It's great If you want to develope commercial applications.

Dis-Advantages: VB has only one dis-advantage which I know is that it is not that much deep as C,C++ or VC++ or JAVA having.

That's all of VB... I hope so you will like my review...

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