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Visual Basic Tutorial - What can I do with it?

What can I do with it?

Now you know what Visual Basic is, what can it do? Over the last few years, the selection of options available for this has grown rapidly, and now you can do almost everything C++ can to some extent, and in half the time. To get some idea, take a look at the list below:

- File Editors/Word Processing
- Database Programs
- Internet Applications
- Web Browser
- Custom Applications
- Data Manipulation
- File Management
- Games
- Spreadsheets
- and more!

What's more, if VB can't easily do what you want it to do, ActiveX Controls (or just Controls) are available to let you do this. These are essentially plug-ins that allow you to extend the functionality of Visual Basic, and can be bought from 3rd Party vendors. Some are also available free, from VB Web, and other sites.

As you can see, there are tonnes of options available to you. All you need is the knowledge to do it - which this site will help you gain.

James first started writing tutorials on Visual Basic in 1999 whilst starting this website (then known as VB Web). Since then, the site has grown rapidly, and James has written numerous tutorials, articles and reviews on VB, PHP, ASP and C#. In October 2003, James formed the company Developer Fusion Ltd, which owns this website, and also offers various development services. In his spare time, he's a 3rd year undergraduate studying Computer Science in the UK. He's also a Visual Basic MVP.

Comments

  • Re: [30] Complete VB Beginners Tutorial

    Posted by pcmenegusso on 06 Jun 2008

    what's "grammer" anyway? and who's needing it here?

  • Re: beginner...

    Posted by HartTechService on 27 May 2008

    No offense, but you might want to brush up on your English grammer skills first.  "We'll gonna"= We will gonna or going too??????  This just makes no sense.  "We are ...

  • beginner...

    Posted by Tessa07 on 13 Jun 2007

    Hi evry1..
    I take IT course, n we'll gonna use VB for nxt semester.1st n 2nd semester we already have C n C++,so  i hope any1 here can help me out..TQVM..

  • New to VB.net

    Posted by asingh9 on 08 Sep 2005

    Hi,
    I have been using Visual Basic for one year. Now, I want to switch to VB.net as it is the latest technology. I am totally confused how should I go about doing this. Could you tell me the name of ...

  • Student edition

    Posted by eric2358 on 10 Aug 2005

    You may not be able to comile your code into an executable that would be portable, but your code can be copied into notepad files and kept for later use/reuse.