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Programmer's guide -- Language reference -- Professional features book 1 -- Professional features book 2. Microsoft Visual Basic, the quickest and easiest way to create applications for the Microsoft Windows operating system. The Visual Basic programming system allows you to create attractive and useful applications that fully exploit the graphical user interface (GUI).... Using Visual Basic, you can create powerful, full-featured applications that exploit the key features of Microsoft Windows, including multiple-document interface (MDI), object linking and embedding (OLE), dynamic data exchange (DDE), graphics, and more. And Visual Basic can be extended by adding custom controls and by calling procedures in dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). -Intro.