Visual Basic is a programming environment from Microsoft in which a programmer uses a graphical user interface to choose and modify preselected sections of code written in the BASIC programming language.

Since Visual Basic is easy to learn and fast to write code with, it's sometimes used to prototype an application that will later be written in a more difficult but efficient language. Visual Basic is also widely used to write working programs. Microsoft says that there are at least 3 million developers using Visual Basic.

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Here is Microsoft's Visual Basic home page.

There are several Visual Basic FAQ sites. Here's one we liked.

MatrixVB furnishes a COM library of matrix math functions for Visual Basic, providing a math interpreter and scientific development environment.