What is VB?

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Visual Basic (VB) is the third-generation event-driven programming
language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft
for its COM programming model. Visual Basic is relatively easy to
learn and use.

Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application
development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications,
access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or
ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects.
Scripting languages such as VBA and VBScript are syntactically similar
to Visual Basic, but perform differently.

A programmer can put together an application using the components
provided with Visual Basic itself. Programs written in Visual Basic
can also use the Windows API, but doing so requires external function
declarations.