Although not a true object-oriented programming language in the strictest sense, Visual Basic nevertheless has an object-oriented philosophy. It is sometimes called an event-driven language because each object can react to different events such as a mouse click.

Since its launch in 1990, the Visual Basic approach has become the norm for programming languages. Now there are visual environments for many programming languages, including C, C++, Pascal, and Java. Visual Basic is sometimes called a Rapid Application Development (RAD) system because it enables programmers to quickly build prototype applications.

Microsoft Visual Basic Home Page 
Contains links to demos, product information, tips, and FAQs, events and training, links, and case studies.

Visual Basic Tips & Tricks site 
Offers a wealth of information for the Visual Basic programmer, including the latest news and information on Visual Basic. There are links to a download area, tip of the month, component information, and bug watch.

Visual Basic Explorer site
This site is geared towards Visual Basic 'newbies'. It offers a collection of Visual Basic reference sites, tutorials, source code, programming samples, and questions and answers.

Visual Basic Web Magazine
Provides new and experienced Visual Basic programmers access to tutorials, articles, source code, tips and tricks, vendor pages, newsgroups, and related sites.

How to Snatch HTML Using Visual Basic Code
Discover how to create a Visual Basic function that will grab the HTML from a Web page!