跪求达人翻译一段英文文献~Traditionally, the computer industry has viewed Microsoft Corp.'s Visual Basic (VB) more as a learning tool than as a serious application development program. However, new features added to the product, along with the inclusion of VB 6.0 in the Visual Studio 6.0 suite, lend credibility to Visual Basic as a professional programming environment.VB 6.0 provides a wide assortment of new controls, advances in language constructs, and new objec

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Traditionally, the computer industry has viewed Microsoft Corp.'s Visual Basic (VB) more as a learning tool than as a serious application development program. However, new features added to the product, along with the inclusion of VB 6.0 in the Visual Studio 6.0 suite, lend credibility to Visual Basic as a professional programming environment.
VB 6.0 provides a wide assortment of new controls, advances in language constructs, and new object-oriented features. This version not only improves on the functionality of its predecessors, but also brings new Internet connectivity in the form of Internet Information Server Web classes, Visual Basic Generated DHTML, and Remotable DataSets using the new ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).
Some of these new controls provide important functionality, and some we think were just plain fun. The CoolBar, for instance, falls in the latter category. This little control allows you to create custom toolbar bands much like the Internet Explorer (IE) 4.0 quick-launch bar and navigation bar. The Image ComboBox is also a nice addition to the VB toolbox. As its name suggests, the Image ComboBox can display graphical icons as well as text. An example of this might be displaying a color swatch next to its name or a drive picture next to the corresponding letter.
As Microsoft Access users, we found that the Data Repeater control was like an old friend. By creating other controls within the Data Repeater and connecting it up to a data source, we achieved the equivalent of Access Continuous Forms. This displays multiple copies of an original form, each corresponding to a record.
VB is not only a container for widgets, but also a system for developing code to make applications. One of its previous shortcomings was its handling of textual data. We have always found that sifting through text files or returned form data can be a slow and cumbersome process in VB. However, the Split, Join, Filter and Replace functions go a long way to ease this task. Although not yet as robust as some of its more command-line-based brethren, we found these features to save both time and energy when we were programming.
One of the biggest advances in general programming theory, object orientation has been slowly creeping into VB over the last few versions. Microsoft introduced the User Defined Data Type (UDT) in VB 3.0. This fledgling object-oriented construct allowed us to create variables with subvariables such as employee.salary or car.color. One of the features that really rounds out VB 6.0 is the ability to pass arrays or UDTs as arguments to procedures or functions. We found that this basic programming enhancement affords a much simpler device for the movement of data and specific data access.