Is Visual Basic primed for a resurgence? Well, no. But there are signs of new life in the VB ecosystem, most recently on the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) side of things. This week saw a couple ...

Throughout the years, however, many derivatives of VB have been created, and variations such as Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) still thrive, as any builder of Microsoft Office macros knows full ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications. While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA ...

A subset of Visual Basic provides a macro language for Microsoft applications (see VBA). When released in 1991, Visual Basic (VB) was similar to Microsoft's QuickBASIC.

Microsoft has introduced new JavaScript-based macroing capabilities to some Office programs, but nothing with the same mix of capabilities and ease of use that Visual Basic for Applications has.