by Raj Kumar

Created on: April 28, 2009

Visual Basic is extremely popular programming language. It is one of the best products of Microsoft. Like other programming languages, Visual Basic has also its own advantages and limitations.

Let's first discuss about some good pros of Visual Basic.

USER FRIENDLY & INTERACTIVE

This is the most common feature of Visual Basic. As a user you will find very few complain about its user friendliness. You have readymade controls and excellent MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) help for technical doubts. You have various window sections like Immediate Window, Watch Window etc. to help in coding, testing and debugging during the entire phase of software development life cycle. The great thing about Visual Basic is "Intellisense". You type of the desired word by half and pres CNTRL + SPACE keys, you will get list of all related properties, methods and objects. Like other languages, Visual Basic is not case sensitive.

SIMPLE AND EASY

Visual Basic is event driven. This concept makes it easy to program and write logic pertaining to respective events. Since the code executes based on user actions and corresponding events, things get simpler. There is no need to think sequentially and to track the code starting from the beginning to the end of source code file. Lot of code gets reduced as Microsoft has already provided inbuilt controls and container interface.

RAPID DEVELOPMENT

As things are simpler and easier, Visual Basic is exceptionally handy in developing the software program in a speedy manner. With ready-made controls and user friendly IDE (Microsoft Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment) tools and utilities, you can create and deploy your project in very less timeframe. As you have debug facility, you can analyze and resolve any pending issues very quickly.

POWERFUL FRONT-END TOOL

Event driven concept equipped with advance features of object oriented programming along with user friendly IDE makes Visual Basic a powerful programming and front-end tool. Visual Basic can accomplish simple to complex business requirements in very effective and efficient manner. It has wonderful chemistry with multiple databases including DBMS (Database Management System) like Microsoft Access, RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) like Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase, and ORDBMS (Object Relational Database Management System) like Oracle. It can also work with Flat Text file and Microsoft Excel data files.

MULTIPLE VENDOR SUPPORT

Visual Basic shows excellent coordination with

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