Visual Basic

Welcome to the Visual Basic documentation. We've worked to make this documentation easy to use, beginning with these links to places you can use as first stops in your search for information.

The Visual Basic Programmer's Guide is a comprehensive manual on programming with Visual Basic.

The Component Tools Guide is a suite of guides to help you create and use ActiveX-based components.

For details on data access programming in Visual Basic see the Data Access Guide.

Visual Basic is a member of the Visual Studio 6.0 family of development products, which includes:

• Visual Basic
• Visual C++
• Visual FoxPro
• Visual InterDev
• Visual J++
• Visual SourceSafe
• MSDN Library

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Getting Started
Take just a few minutes to get familiar with Visual Basic 6.

What's New
Find out about all the new Visual Basic 6 features.

Explore the Samples
Explore the Visual Basic sample applications.

Finding Information
Learn to navigate Visual Basic's online documentation and help system in this MSDN Library browser.

Readme
Check the readme file for installation issues.

Reference
Reference information for the Visual Basic language and controls.

Visual Basic on the Web