2. Environment

2.1 General features

• A powerful yet simple graphics editor

VB's graphical editor is WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), which means that the view of the interface given by the editor during design is exactly the same as that obtained at runtime. This concept facilitates the development of the interface, which does not require program execution to be visualized. What's more, the process of creating an interface has been optimized by using, among other things, the notions of drag & drop or resizing using the mouse.

• An interpreted language

BASIC is basically an interpreted language. When a project is compiled, code called p-code is generated,...