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You'd expect a visual development tool to have started with a vision. For Visual Basic, that vision has always been to enable developers to produce applications for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Quickly and efficiently.
Today that vision, now in its fourth version, supports all Windows platforms--including Windows 95 and Windows NT(TM)--and nearly every kind of programmer, from the individual developer to developers working in teams.
The foundation of this programming system is OLE, Microsoft's open object model. Together, OLE and VBX controls offer the world's largest and fastest-growing object library of pre-built components you can buy, use, and reuse in your programs.
With Visual Basic, Professional Edition, accelerate the building of state-of-the-art solutions for Windows. For instance, use data-bound OLE controls to create robust client/server applications that support data access to local and remote databases.
Providing an even faster way to work is the Visual Basic for Applications language engine, which leverages a developer's skills with a common language across many Microsoft applications and development tools.