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  • proper noun A programming language developed by Microsoft, broadly descended from BASIC and Pascal and later superseded by VB.NET, in which all programs have a graphical user interface.

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  • In addition, Visual Basic is very slow in Office 2007 such that you cannot use certain CAT tools any more with it, e.g.

    Favorite tools: Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 file formats « Musings from an overworked translator 2008

  • I am done with both the Visual Basic study guide and the Intro to Business one.

    Cat Rambo catrambo 2006

  • Starting in 1991 with Visual Basic 1 and continuing through to Visual Basic 3, Visual Basic revolutionized Windows application development by making it accessible in a way that wasn't possible before.

    Site Home Lisa.Feigenbaum 2011

  • Frankly I do not like very much language like Visual Basic, and I do not understand how this one can be imposed in a UML environment!

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • The foundation of such applications is typically some combination of Visual Basic 6 and obsolete versions of Access and Excel.

    Ars Technica Peter Bright 2010

  • Haferkamp writes Visual Basic call center tools and is very active on a number contact center related web forums.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Frankly I do not like very much language like Visual Basic, and I do not understand how this one can be imposed in a UML environment!

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • Starting with Visual Basic (fathered by User Interaction guru Alan Cooper), and later tools like PowerBuilder and Borland's Delphi, developers were able to create applications by dragging reusable components onto an "assembly canvas" and writing simple script code to connect them.

    SearchSOA: News on SOA, EAI, Web services Mike Pontacoloni 2010

  • Frankly I do not like very much language like Visual Basic, and I do not understand how this one can be imposed in a UML environment!

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • The foundation of such applications is typically some combination of Visual Basic 6 and obsolete versions of Access and Excel.

    Ars Technica Peter Bright 2010

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