Difference Between VB and VBScript

The full form of VB is Visual Basic and VBScript is Visual Basic Scripting. These are the two major programming languages that play an important role in making significant tools that are used to develop the programming system of the computer. These play a vital role in programming languages.

What is VB?

The full form of VB is Visual Basic. It is a software application that is used to develop compiled programs or applications. It is the third generation of the programming language. 

It allows the programmers to design both simple Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications and complicated applications.

Advantages

• Its features and characteristics are easy to understand and implement.
• It has more simple syntax than any other language.
• It is a user-friendly interface.
• It has an excellent connection with the database.
• It is extensive.
• It is also dynamic and context-sensitive.

Disadvantages

• Programs that are in the VB code cannot be easily transferred to the other operating system.
• It is impossible to initialize an array of structures at declaration time.
• It does not support object-oriented programming languages.
• It cannot support a multi-threading mechanism.

What is VBScript?

The full form of  VBScript is Visual Basic Scripting. It is a scripting language. It is developed by Microsoft. It uses Component Object Model (COM) to access elements of its surroundings. It is a lightweight programming language and it is a subset of VB.

 It is used to write both client-side and server-side scripting languages. VBscript is case insensitive. It uses functions and end function to denote functions. 

Advantages

• It is a simple and easy version of VB.
• It has very easy syntax to use.
• It is an object-based high-level language rather than an object-oriented programming language.

Disadvantages

• VBScript does not distinguish between upper case and lower case.
• It is used only in Internet Explorer (IE), so it does not support other browsers like Chrome, Firefox, etc.
• In this debugging is difficult.
• It has limited command line support.
• In this, there is no development environment by default.

Difference between VB and VBScript

S.No.	VB	VBScript
1.	The full form of VB is Visual Basic.	The full form of VBscript is Visual Basic Scripting.
2.	It is a software application that used to develop compiled programs or applications	It is a scripting language.
3.	VB codes cannot be run in VBScripts.	VBScript codes can be run in VB.
4.	It is an application development tool.	It is a scripting language, it cannot independently develop applications.
5.	In VB executable statements can only exist inside procedure scopes.	In VBScript code does not need procedure scopes.
6.	It is developed by Microsoft in 1991	It is also developed by Microsoft, but in 1996
7.	It runs as a stand-alone language.	It must be integrated with HTML.
8.	It has debuggers.	It doesn’t have debuggers.
9.	It uses different types of variables and constants.	It uses only one type of variable as a variant.
10.	It is derived from BASIC Computer Language.	It is a subset of VB with limited syntax.