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What is Visual Basic?
By James Crowley, published on 14 Jul 2001
James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience of over half a million unique developers. In July '08 James left his job as Head of Development at a digital agency in London to focus his energies on developerFusion full-time.
James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience of over half a million unique developers. In July '08 James left his job as Head of Development at a digital agency in London to focus his energies on developerFusion full-time.
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- Introduction
- Is Visual Basic really 'Visual'?
- Visual Basic NOT Basic
- ActiveX Controls
- The Catch
ActiveX Controls
Visual Basic also supports ActiveX controls. These are controls, which other people have designed (or you if you want!) either in Visual Basic, or another language, which you can then put in to your application like any other control (a button for example). However you must always check if you are allowed to use the control, as you may need to pay a registration fee to the author.
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