Visual Basic is just like normal basic, except, it has tons of GUI C++ objects, access to the windows API, and VBX support, which allows you to do just about anything.
Visual Basic's programming language also offers some advantages over regular basic. Here are a couple:

• Arrays don't need to have a size. You can change their size at any point in the program, and preserve their contents.
• Type structures can contain arrays.
• Their is a variant data type that can contain anything.

These are just a few of the advantages.

I have written several Visual Basic programs. Here are some of the most useful:

Name	Comments
The Adventure Maker II	A powerful adventure game writer. Info in this site.
LingoScript	A simple programming language that is easy to implement.
The Store	A program that can manage large amounts of inventory.