Visual Basic for Applications

Visual Basic for Applications, usually shortened to VBA, is an implementation of Microsoft's event-driven programming language Visual Basic 6 together with its associated integrated development environment. Visual Basic itself was discontinued in 2008 and is no longer supported or updated by Microsoft, but VBA was upgraded in 2010 with the introduction of Visual Basic for Applications 7 in Microsoft Office applications. VBA lets users build user-defined functions, automate processes, and reach the Windows API and other low-level functionality through dynamic-link libraries. The Programming Language Database dates it to 1993 and records that about five percent of respondents to the 2021 Stack Overflow developer survey reported using it.