Visual Basic 6.0 is a robust, object-oriented, sophisticated and powerful
development platform, ideally suited for producing impressive Windows
applications. The Visual Basic syntax forms the core of the scripting
languages built into all the Microsoft 97 and 98 applications like Word,
Excel, Power Point, etc.
Why choose Visual Basic ?
Many successful development environments are available, including Visual
C++, Borland Delphi, and PowerSoft's Power Builder. A good development
system needs to keep up with the rapid changes in desktop computing. VB
is undergoing continual development and improvement at Microsoft.
The major advantages of VB are:
It is a powerful and complete Windows application development system
that enables us to use built-in functions and subroutines for dozens
of different tasks. It also provides capability to produce custom libraries
and objects that can be loaded at runtime or bound into the distributed
application.
It is a hugely successful product preferred by millions of developers
at virtually all skill levels.
It is well supported by third party products
It supports the principle of object driven design
It is very flexible and user-friendly as it is a GUI (Graphic User
Interface)
