Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting Edition
Visual Basic for Applications Features Not in VBScript
Language Reference

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Category Omitted Feature/Keyword
Array Handling Option Base
Declaring arrays with lower bound <> 0
Collection Add, Count, Item, Remove
Access to collections using ! character (e.g., MyCollection!Foo)

Conditional Compilation #Const
#If...Then...#Else
Control Flow DoEvents
GoSub...Return, GoTo
On Error GoTo
On...GoSub, On...GoTo
Line numbers, Line labels
With...End With
Conversion CVar, CVDate
Str, Val

Data Types All intrinsic data types except Variant
Type...End Type

Date/Time Date statement, Time statement
Timer

DDE LinkExecute, LinkPoke, LinkRequest, LinkSend

Debugging Debug.Print
End, Stop

Declaration Declare (for declaring DLLs)
New
Optional
ParamArray
Property Get, Property Let, Property Set
Static

Error Handling Erl
Error
On Error...Resume
Resume, Resume Next

File Input/Output All traditional Basic file I/O

Financial All financial functions
Object Manipulation TypeOf
Objects Clipboard
Collection
Operators Like
Options Deftype
Option Base
Option Compare
Option Private Module
Strings Fixed-length strings
LSet, RSet
Mid Statement
StrConv

Using Objects Collection access using !


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