What are the advantages and disadvantages of Visual Basic?

Answer 1

Visual basic is a proprietary programming language written by Microsoft, so programs written in Visual basic cannot, easily, be transferred to other operating systems. There are versions of Basic that run on several operating systems, but they aren't direct clones of VB so some work would have to be done. Visual Basic is built around the .NET environment used by all Microsoft Visual languages, so there is very little that can't be done in Visual Basic that can be done in other languages (such as C#). Visual Basic only really exists as a high-level Windows programming language - for writing Windows applications. Whereas other languages (particularly the "C" family of C, C++ and C#) have a life outside of Windows and are used for everything from writing device drivers or "embedded" systems up to large applications. There are some, fairly minor disadvantages compared with C: C has better declaration of arrays - its possible to initialise an array of structures in C at declaration time; this is impossible in VB. in combination if tests: if A and B then endif In C, it is defined that A is evaluated first, then B. Visual Basic doesn't guarantee the order of evaluation; this makes some programming a bit more awkward; in C, the following is safe: if Inst>0 and Array(inst) =5 then

{

// do stuff

} as the Inst>0 test is always done first, in visual basic it becomes: if Inst > 0

if Array(inst) = 5 then

' do stuff

endif

endif The advantages of VB are the ease of learning - the syntax is simpler than other languages (although it can be argued that C has more flexibility). The visual environment is excellent (although that's common to all the visual languages). It's widely used and, therefore, well understood.

Answer 2

VB is a computer program developed by Microsoft used to make other computer programs through code and some interface. A friendly interface to construct basic looks of a program without code. VB stands for visual basic, and is also its own programming language.

Visual Basic is best suited for creating minor not too complicated programs in my opinion and is probably one of the more user friendly of the computer programming languages out there. VB incorporates a interface where you can create windows to your application easy and without to much code (for example you could drag and drop what the windows in your program will look like, where the buttons are, and text boxes go, ex.). Visual Basic, although an extremely powerful programming interface, lacks power to do tasks that other languages can perform. C ++ another widely coding language out there, has been known to be used to program operating systems (windows 7 ex.), robots, software to missiles and space equipment, crazy stuff like that. Things like this are not practical with vb, although perhaps not impossible. VB is good to make cool things like some PC games, database applications, and the like. The bottom line is this, VB is user friendly and is great for minor PC programming, but other languages may deliver more power but are more tedious to create a flashy eye catching application that vb delivers easier.

Answer 3

Advantages

• You can quickly make programs
• You get suggestions and auto complete while typing code

Disadvantages

• It's mainly 2D output with 3D being hard to achive