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I first used Visual Basic 1.0 in 1993 when I worked for Replacements Ltd.  when I was also coding Cobol programs for them.  The database then was a version of dBase as a 3rd Party control since at the time Visual Basic 1.0 did not have a database yet.

Let's meet the most popular language every developed.  Visual Basic (VB) is a third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model first released in 1991.  Visual Basic is designed to be relatively easy to learn and use.  Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects.  Scripting languages such as VBA and VBScript are syntactically similar to Visual Basic, but perform differently.

Mississippi Customers

Some information I know about Mississippi is I believe the state was admitted or ratified to the United States around or about 'December 10, 1817'.  Mississippi is located around latitude '33' and longitude of '-90' and has a population of roughly '2,961,279 million'.  If I remember correctly the capital is 'Jackson' and the largest city is 'Jackson'. 

Why Use Visual Basic?

A programmer can put together an application using the components provided with Visual Basic itself.  Programs written in Visual Basic can also use the Windows API, but doing so requires external function declarations.  Though the program has received criticism for its perceived faults, from version 3 Visual Basic was a runaway commercial success, and many companies offered third party controls greatly extending its functionality.

If at any point you decide to reach to me just know the area codes I am familiar with for Mississippi are '228, 601, 662, 769'.  For Visual Basic assistance you will find my rates very reasonable for Mississippi.  Now just keep in mind my time zone is 'Eastern Standard Time (EST)' and I know the time zones in Mississippi are 'Central Standard Time (CST)' in case you wish to call me.  Anyway let me continue.

One could build a robust, full-featured database management system with legacy Visual FoxPro (VFP) in a fraction of the time it would take in .NET, PHP, or any other web development tool (except maybe Ruby).  Of course, that doesn't mean every application should be developed in VFP.  If you need web capabilities, it doesn't matter how productive VFP is.  I cannot really use it.  So our goal is to find out early if a Windows application makes sense.  If it does, I have the capability to create some pretty cool programs.  If you need web, I can build some cool web applications too.  It's all up to you.

Characteristics

1. Visual Basic has the following traits which differ from C-derived languages: Statements tend to be terminated with keywords such as "End If", instead of using "{}"s to group statements. 
2. Multiple variable assignment is not possible.  A = B = C does not imply that the values of A, B and C are equal.  The boolean result of "Is B = C?" is stored in A.  The result stored in A would therefore be either false or true. 
3. Boolean constant True has numeric value −1.  This is because the Boolean data type is stored as a 16-bit signed integer.  In this construct −1 evaluates to 16 binary 1s (the Boolean value True), and 0 as 16 0s (the Boolean value False).  This is apparent when performing a Not operation on a 16 bit signed integer value 0 which will return the integer value −1, in other words True = Not False.  This inherent functionality becomes especially useful when performing logical operations on the individual bits of an integer such as And, Or, Xor and Not.  This definition of True is also consistent with BASIC since the early 1970s Microsoft BASIC implementation and is also related to the characteristics of CPU instructions at the time. 
4. Logical and bitwise operators are unified.  This is unlike some C-derived languages (such as Perl), which have separate logical and bitwise operators.  This again is a traditional feature of BASIC. 
5. Variable array base.  Arrays are declared by specifying the upper and lower bounds in a way similar to Pascal and Fortran.  It is also possible to use the Option Base statement to set the default lower bound.  Use of the Option Base statement can lead to confusion when reading Visual Basic code and is best avoided by always explicitly specifying the lower bound of the array.  This lower bound is not limited to 0 or 1, because it can also be set by declaration.  In this way, both the lower and upper bounds are programmable.  In more subscript-limited languages, the lower bound of the array is not variable.  This uncommon trait does exist in Visual Basic .NET but not in VBScript.  OPTION BASE was introduced by ANSI, with the standard for ANSI Minimal BASIC in the late 1970s. 
6. Relatively strong integration with the Windows operating system and the Component Object Model.  The native types for strings and arrays are the dedicated COM types, BSTR and SAFEARRAY. 
7. Banker's rounding as the default behavior when converting real numbers to integers with the Round function.[7] ?  Round(2.5, 0) gives 2, ?  Round(3.5, 0) gives 4. 
8. Integers are automatically promoted to reals in expressions involving the normal division operator (/) so that division of one integer by another produces the intuitively correct result.  There is a specific integer divide operator (\) which does truncate. 
9. By default, if a variable has not been declared or if no type declaration character is specified, the variable is of type Variant.  However this can be changed with Deftype statements such as DefInt, DefBool, DefVar, DefObj, DefStr.  There are 12 Deftype statements in total offered by Visual Basic 6.0.  The default type may be overridden for a specific declaration by using a special suffix character on the variable name (# for Double, !  for Single, & for Long, % for Integer, $ for String, and @ for Currency) or using the key phrase As (type).  VB can also be set in a mode that only explicitly declared variables can be used with the command Option Explicit.

You know, I don't make it out to Mississippi much but I would like to see the 'Mockingbird' state bird.  I am a little familiar with the Mississippi 'Magnolia' state flower as well.  However, I do not know much about Mississippi's state tree the 'Southern Magnolia'.  Fishing is fun to me perhaps I would like reeling in the Mississippi 'Largemouth Bass' state fish.  Anyway, sorry I went off topic.  Let me continue.

Experts in Visual Basic (All Versions)

When Visual Basic was first developed by Microsoft I already had been developing heavily in QuickBasic and Professional Development System Basic.  I first beta tested Visual Basic when Microsoft came out with in the 286 processor days.  I have the experience, so call us today to get your coding started.