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Get started with Visual Basic by learning to display the date and time

Learn how to create your own functions.

Fact is, that few of the VB commands stand alone. More often than not, a command supports only one aspect of a topic. For example, the OPEN command opens a file so you can read it, whereas the LINE INPUT command reads one line of data at a time. And so it is in all of the areas of capability which VB supports. This page provides my own interpretation of VB command grouping.

In this section I'll talk about how to use the database features of VB, but I'll also talk about when those features are overkill and when simpler methods of data storage can be substituted for the VB database methods.

Database controls are ideal if you want to get in, get the job done, and then get out. In this section we'll discuss the controls available to the database programmer. VB falls short, however, in helping beginners create databases from scratch.