visual basic question

[lycialive]

Is VB a language that can be learned, or is it an application only? What I mean is, everytime I search it on the internet, it's a "buy this program" type thing. Is it a language I can teach myself with a book, then use notepad like I would html, or do I need an actual program? Thanks!

 

[rainman89]

Is VB a language that can be learned, or is it an application only? What I mean is, everytime I search it on the internet, it's a "buy this program" type thing. Is it a language I can teach myself with a book, then use notepad like I would html, or do I need an actual program? Thanks!

Sadly its not as simple as HTML you will have to use a program compile it. That being said. I don't know if you have to purchase one or if there are free compilers out there. HTH

 

[lycialive]

Thanks for your reply. Apparently there are some freebies out there. I was wanting to learn this to help me design better access databases.

 

[gemma-the-husky]

VB is/was visual basic - a high level? programming language included in an integrated MS development environment.


Access and Excel include something called VBA - visual basic for applications, which offers a subset?/superset? (slightly different anyway) version of VB, specially designed for use in those applications.


VBA knowledge is still fairly hard to come by - most Access books explain tables/queries/forms etc, but dont major on VBA. Most language skills are transferrable - so if you have familiarity with any programming language, then VB/VBA would be easier to pick up - its just a slightly different syntax, although as always when moving between languages, you will find some things are possible/easy in one language, but are harder/ not implemented in others.