hey what???

ive heard some stuff about vb and frankly what is is?
what can it do for me,lets say?
is a scripting language like php,and perl and is it client side

well, pasty, that's kinda complex. VB is a superset of the original BASIC language, taken to a GUI. It allows everyone from those who are not to familiar with programming and OOD/OOP to pick up on the basics of programming. There are several editions (VB v1.0-6.0 and .NET), as well as vbScript and vb for applications. vbScript is a safe subset of visual basic, and is usually run client side, but only on boxes with IE. It was also the basis for server-side ASP which extends the functionality of VBScript to allow for complex database transactions and on-the-fly builds. VB for applications is another subset of VB that is useful for building macros in products like MSWord and MSExcel - what exactly do you want to know, because I'm just rambling.

Basically, VB is great for Rapid Application development because it is easy to use and offers a lot of built in memory management. It use to be that C++/C offered a lot of advantages over VB in terms of memory allocation and speed, but the advent of .Net has closed that gap....

am I even getting close to what you want to know?

that was a lot of info to take in but none the lees quite informitive, thanks.
one more question though can u give me an exaple were vb is used in more laymans terms thanks again
pasty

are you talking about Visual Basic, VBA(for office), or VBScript(for web design)?

um dident know there were 2 types.
vb (web design) sound self explanitory but what about vba

well, in the case of VBScript (for web design), it is good to use, but only when you absolutely know that all of your users will be using Internet Explorer compatible browsers - Netscape and clones do not run inherently run VBScript. We use it at work because we have a network with IE on all of our machines. VBScript is a safe subset of Visual Basic, which basically means that you can do anything that doesn't require drive manipulation (to put it simply). VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is another subset of Visual Basic which is designed to work in Excel/Word and is good for writing macros. It doesn't have the same limitations as VBScript, just that the office package and VBRuntime files are installed. Of course, Visual Basic is the full-blown programming language (3.0-.NET), and is good for most programming situations. The only limitations in the earlier versions (up until .NET) were with large amounts of memory allocation - and even at that, it would still run, just might have been a little slower than other languages.

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thanks for the help
sound advice cheers