Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition Software

Visual Basic 5.0 features a number of significant performance and productivity enhancements that will help make developers more efficient and end-user solutions faster and more flexible. Advanced features such as native code compilation, high-speed database access, and an improved development environment make Visual Basic 5.0 a powerful tool. In addition, the component creation capabilities of the ActiveX technologies in Visual Basic 5.0 allows the more than 3 million developers using Visual Basic to quickly create component-based applications targeting the Internet, intranet and traditional client/server environments. Visual Basic 5.0 delivers unmatched performance gains over any rapid application development tool in its class. Microsoft included several key features in version 5.0 that deliver performance gains of up to 2,000 percent over version 4.0, including native code compilation. Developers can compile applications and components into native code by making optimal use of Microsoft's award-winning compiler technology. For compute-intensive operations, Visual Basic 5.0 is up to 20 times faster than Visual Basic 4.0. In addition, with the enhanced forms technology and ActiveX Controls, forms load up to 17 times faster - a critical requirement for GUI-intensive applications.