Comparison between visual basic and Microsoft visual basic?

Answer 1

There is no difference. Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual Basic are the same thing. Visual Basic is a language that was developed by Microsoft.

There is however a difference between Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET (Now known as just Visual Basic and VB.Net). VB.Net is basically Visual Basic, the only difference is that VB.Net supports the Microsoft .NET Framework.

There is a similar language, called BASIC, from which Visual Basic was derived.

Answer 2

I used to build programming applications using QBASIC, first; and, this created console style applications; which didn't use any objects.

EXAMPLE

QBASIC Code:

PRINT "Hello, world!"

...press function key [F5] to make the program RUN/code execute/output...

Hello, world!

Then, when I moved to using Visual BASIC 6...I discovered that it's possible to create 'object based' applications, instead.

An 'object based' programming language uses an 'object library' which is filled with lots of pre-written objects...that you simply use along with your mouse to 'select'/and, then, 'drag and drop' these chosen objects onto a form...in order to build your UI-User Interface. These objects include such things as...

-frames

-buttons

-text box

-labels

-drop down list box

-etc.

I found that working with using an OOP/Object Oriented Programming language cut down my program development time by, at least, half; because the UI-User Interface part of the program could be built very quickly and easily, indeed.

EXAMPLE

[ ] <-Text box object; with the name: TextBox1

Visual BASIC code:

TextBox1.Text="Hello, world!"

...press function key [F5] to make the program RUN/code execute/output...

[Hello, world!] <-Text box object; with the name: TextBox1