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What is the difference between VB and VBScript?
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VBScript is an untyped language. Unlike Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications, in which the developer can define the data type of a variable in advance, all variables in VBScript are variants.
Visual Basic (VB) is a similar language (also created by Microsoft), with the main difference being that VB programs can be run outside of Microsoft applications. Basic is a language created in 1964. There are many implementations of it. Built in to Windows are Visual Basic .
VBScript ("Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition") is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic. It allows Microsoft Windows system administrators to generate powerful tools for managing computers with error handling, subroutines, and other advanced programming constructs.
VBA stands for Visual Basic For Applications and its a Visual Basic implementation intended to be used in the Office Suite. The difference between them is that VBA is embedded inside Office documents (its an Office feature). VB is the ide/language for developing applications.
VB is a full-fledged programming language which can be used to create compiled applications, while VBScript is a sub-set of VB and is a scripting language that can be used to run a set of commands, similar to an old-school DOS batch file. Generally, a scripting language can not be used to create a full-fledged binary application and it can not be compiled down to a executable binary file.
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VBScript is a variety of VB, just as VB6, VBA, and VB.NET are. They're all different, some of them dramatically so.
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