Four main kinds of Visual Basic exist: this course concentrates on the
'full versions' of Visual Basic:
VB versions 1 to 6
VB.NET (several versions)
but there are also Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and
VBScript. Both these versions are subsets of the full version, so each
lacks some of the features of the full version - neither is particularly
difficult to master but you will have to learn to work within their limitations.
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a version of VB
that is built in to many important applications such as MS Word and MS
Excel. VB programs can run within these programs to give the user great
control over how documents interact with their users. If you know what
macros are then you can think of VBA scripts as 'super macros'.
VBScript is
a limited version of VB that can be incorporated directly into the
HTML code that makes up web pages. This allows the pages to more
interactive and dynamic. Click the link above to learn more.
VBScript is not the only way that Visual Basic can be used to
enhance web pages which are otherwise usually very static and
passive... other ways include DHTML and Javascript but
they are not described here.
