Microsoft Visual Basic – tool for software development, developed by Microsoft and includes a programming language and development environment. Visual Basic language has inherited the spirit, style and syntax of his ancestor in part – Basic language, which has many dialects. At the same time, Visual Basic combines the process and elements of object-oriented and component-oriented programming languages. VB development environment includes tools for visual design of user interface.
Visual Basic at the same time and love, and despised by many programmers. Visual Basic is considered an ideal tool for rapid development of prototypes for the development of applications and databases in general, for the component method of creating programs that are running operating systems Microsoft Windows.
The first recognition of the serious developers Visual Basic received after version 3 – VB 3. Final acceptance as a full-fledged programming tools for Windows – Version 5 on exit – VB 5. VB 6 version that is included with Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, has become a truly mature and functionally rich product. After that, the developers of Microsoft has changed the direction of this technology.
Language Visual Basic is not a standard or ANSI, or ISO.

Visual Basic Classic (versions 5 and 6).
Visual Basic Classic is very much tied to its environment and to develop the operating system Windows, as the only tool for writing Windows-applications. Binding to the environment is that there are many tools designed to aid and ease of programming: embedded debugger, view variables and data structures on the fly, window managers, bubble when typing program (Intellisense). All these advantages make useless and even impossible to use outside of Visual Basic development environment, such as text editor.

In the Visual Studio 2005 shipped packages that are easier to work on software projects and provide advantages both in the individual work, and in large collective projects.











You can:

• perform tasks faster, with a minimum of monotonous work
• interact effectively in a team
• quickly absorb and apply new technologies
• increase performance and your company, and company clients.

Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition – for Internet sites development.
Software for the rapid creation of web sites and Internet applications.
Software to develop a database – SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.
The powerful and easy DBMS application, which can work in any of the instruments of a series of Express.
To develop Windows-applications – Basic 2005 Express Edition.
Visual Basic software is ideal for amateurs and novice Windows-programmers.
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition.
A wonderful combination of power and performance, designed for Windows-developers.
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition.
A powerful tool with the richest opportunities in the series Express Editions.
Visual J# 2005 Express Edition.
For programmers, with experience in the development of Java and mastering the language.

Visual Studio 6.0 – released in June 1998 – the latest version of Visual Studio running on a platform of Win9x. It is still popular among programmers using Basic. Visual Studio 6.0 was the last version to include the COM-based version of Visual Basic, subsequent versions would include the version of the language based on .NET. It was also the last version to include Visual J++, which was removed as part of a settlement with Sun Microsystems that required Microsoft to stop producing programming tools that targeted the Java Virtual Machine.
Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Visual FoxPro had separate IDEs, while Visual J++ and Visual InterDev shared a common new environment. This new IDE was designed with extensibility in mind, and would go on (after several internal revisions) to become the common environment for all languages with the release of Visual Studio .NET.Visual Studio 6.0 was also the last version to include Visual FoxPro.