Microsoft® Visual Basic® 6.0 is a language rapid application development environment that gives you fast, easy, and intuitive tools to quickly develop Windows® applications. Using Visual Basic, you can develop simple utilities or sophisticated applications. Data access features allow you to create databases, front-end applications, and scalable server-side components for most popular database formats. ActiveX® technologies allow you to use the functionality provided by other applications, and even automate applications and objects created using the Professional or Enterprise editions of Visual Basic. Internet capabilities make it easy to provide access to documents and applications across the Internet or intranet from within your application, or to create Internet server applications.

Visual Basic Enterprise Edition Features

The Visual Basic Enterprise Edition contains all of the features included with the Visual Basic Professional Edition and the Visual Basic Learning Edition. In addition, it contains the following features, available in the Enterprise Edition only. For more information about other editions of Visual Basic, see Visual Basic Editions.

Note These features are also part of the Visual Studio Enterprise Edition, which contains the of Microsoft enterprise development tools.

This tool enables you to test the run-time performance and resource load characteristics of various enterprise application design scenarios you are considering.

Internet Information Services are a platform for a new generation of World Wide Web applications that must interact with other BackOffice components and applications.