Visual Basic - Programming language

Visual Basic is a programming language created in 1991.

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Visual Basic is a third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model first released in 1991 and declared legacy during 2008. Microsoft intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use. Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Example from Compiler Explorer:

Module Program
    Function Square(num As Integer) As Integer
        Return num * num
    End Function
End Module

Example from Riju:

Module Main
    Sub Main(args As String())
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!")
    End Sub
End Module

Example from hello-world:

Module HelloWorld
    Sub Main()
        MsgBox("Hello World")
    End Sub
End Module

Example from Wikipedia:

Option Explicit
Dim Count As Integer
Private Sub Form_Load()
    Count = 0
    Timer1.Interval = 1000 ' units of milliseconds
End Sub
Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
    Count = Count + 1
    Label1.Caption = Count
End Sub

Visual Basic Keywords

AddHandler AddressOf Alias And AndAlso As Async Boolean ByRef Byte ByVal Call Case Catch CBool CByte CChar CDate CDbl CDec Char CInt Class CLng CObj Const Continue CSByte CShort CSng CStr CType CUInt CULng CUShort Date Decimal Declare Default Delegate Dim DirectCast Do Double Each Else ElseIf End EndIf Enum Erase Error Event Exit False Finally For Friend Function Get GetType GetXMLNamespace Global GoSub GoTo Handles If Implements Imports In Inherits Integer Interface Is IsNot Let Lib Like Long Loop Me Mod Module MustInherit MustOverride MyBase MyClass NameOf Namespace Narrowing New Next Not Nothing NotInheritable NotOverridable Object Of On Operator Option Optional Or OrElse Out Overloads Overridable Overrides ParamArray Partial Private Property Protected Public RaiseEvent ReadOnly ReDim RemoveHandler Resume Return SByte Select Set Shadows Shared Short Single Static Step Stop String Structure Sub SyncLock Then Throw To True Try TryCast TypeOf UInteger ULong UShort Using Variant Wend When While Widening With WithEvents WriteOnly Xor

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Standard Library	✓	Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!")
Booleans	✓		True False
Strings	✓		"
Case Insensitive Identifiers	✓
Print() Debugging	✓		Console.WriteLine
Line Comments	✓	' A comment	'
Comments	✓
Directives	✓	Option Explicit On\|Off Option Compare Binary
Semantic Indentation	X
MultiLine Comments	X
Operator Overloading	X