Visual Basic is an immensely popular rapid application development environment for the Microsoft Windows platform. Despite its ease of use, it is possible to use Visual Basic to create highly sophisticated applications.
Visual Basic 6.0 is the last version of the Visual Basic development environment, as it has been superceded by the .NET Framework, and in particular the Visual Basic.NET programming language. Despite this, many tens of thousands of programmers world wide continue to use Visual Basic 6.0, and there is a massive installed code base of existing applications developed using this programming language.