History of Visual Basic

Microsoft first released Visual Basic in 1987. It was the first visual development tool from Microsoft, and it was to compete with C, C++, Pascal and other well-known programming languages. From the start, Visual Basic wasn't a hit. It wasn't until release 2.0 that people really discovered the potential of the language, and with release 3.0 it had become the fastest-growing programming language on the market.

Below is the order and the approximate year in which a new version of Visual Basic was released:

• 1991, VB1 Debuts
  
• 1992, VB2 Debuts
  
• 1993, VB3 Debut
  
• 1996, VB4 Debuts
  
• 1997, VB5 Debuts
  
• 1998, VB6 Debuts
  
• 2001, VB. NET Debuts