[Ben]

Thought I'd make a topic about Visual Basic.

I downloaded Visual Basic about a month ago and since it's been pretty cool - it's pretty cool how you can make such big applications in such little time and effort - Visual Basic is probably the easiest desktop-oriented programming language to learn but at first it is still pretty complicated until you've read the manual three times lol...

It's pretty cool what Microsoft has made and since the past few years it has been free too... even though Visual Basic isn't as fully-featured and the integrity isn't as great as C/C++ is but it can do some really cool stuff effortlessly... and some unique tools that are Windows-specific.

Database integration is probably quite easy if you don't need to add database interaction heavily. If so, you'll be needing to use VB code which can be a daunting task and time-consuming but probably easier than any other desktop programming language.

Quick and easy to learn the fundamentals of Visual Basic and you can go straight ahead in making Windows applications, pretty cool overall...

While other's may agree with me, maybe C/C++ would be the best advantage but VB does go along way in Windows development and even though Microsoft may state it is a further down the line of C/C++ you can still do some pretty cool stuff in it!

Do you use VB? What do you think of it?