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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 for MS-DOS
Visual Basic for MS-DOS
* 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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