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Evolution of Visual Basic

VB 1.0 was introduced in 1991. The approach for connecting the programming language to the graphical user interface is derived from a prototype developed by Alan Cooper called Tripod. Microsoft contracted with Cooper and his associates to develop Tripod into a programmable shell for Windows 3.0, under the code name Ruby (no relation to the Ruby programming language).

Tripod did not include a programming language at all, and Ruby contained only a rudimentary command processor sufficient for its role as a Windows shell. Microsoft decided to use the simple Program Manager shell for Windows 3.0 instead of Ruby, and combine Ruby with the Basic language to create Visual Basic.

Ruby provided the "visual" part of Visual Basic  the form designer and editing tools  along with the ability to load dynamic link libraries containing additional controls (then called "gizmos"). Ruby's extensible gizmos later became the VBX interface.

[edit] Timeline of Visual Basic (VB1 to VB6)

* Project 'Thunder' was initiated
* Visual Basic 1.0 (May 1991) was released for Windows at the Comdex/Windows World trade show in Atlanta, Georgia.

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* Visual Basic 1.0 for DOS was released in September 1992. The language itself was not quite compatible with Visual Basic for Windows, as it was actually the next version of Microsoft's DOS-based BASIC compilers, QuickBASIC and BASIC Professional Development System. The interface was textual, using extended ASCII characters to simulate the appearance of a GUI.
* Visual Basic 2.0 was released in November 1992. The programming environment was easier to use, and its speed was improved. Notably, forms became instantiable objects, thus laying the foundational concepts of class modules as were later offered in VB4.
* Visual Basic 3.0 was released in the summer of 1993 and came in Standard and Professional versions. VB3 included version 1.1 of the Microsoft Jet Database Engine that could read and write Jet (or Access) 1.x databases.
* Visual Basic 4.0 (August 1995) was the first version that could create 32-bit as well as 16-bit Windows programs. It also introduced the ability to write non-GUI classes in Visual Basic.
* With version 5.0 (February 1997), Microsoft released Visual Basic exclusively for 32-bit versions of Windows. Programmers who preferred to write 16-bit programs were able to import programs written in Visual Basic 4.0 to Visual Basic 5.0, and Visual Basic 5.0 programs can easily be converted with Visual Basic 4.0. Visual Basic 5.0 also introduced the ability to create custom user controls, as well as the ability to compile to native Windows executable code, speeding up calculation-intensive code execution.
* Visual Basic 6.0 (Mid 1998) improved in a number of areas, including the ability to create web-based applications. VB6 is currently scheduled to enter Microsoft's "non-supported phase" starting March 2008.
* Mainstream Support for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 ended on March 31, 2005. Extended support will end in March 2008.[5] In response, the Visual Basic user community expressed its grave concern and lobbied users to sign a petition to keep the product alive.[6] Microsoft has so far refused to change their position on the matter. Ironically, around this time, it was exposed that Microsoft's new anti-spyware offering, Microsoft AntiSpyware (part of the GIANT Company Software purchase), was coded in Visual Basic 6.0.[7] Windows Defender Beta 2 was rewritten as C++/CLI code.[8] It is difficult to tell what impact this decision will have on any future offerings of Microsoft if the perception is created that long lasting applications cannot be built with Microsoft Products due to planned obsolescence.


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