Visual Basic (tm) belongs to Microsoft. It's a easy-to-use powerful programmation language, part of Microstoft's DevStudio. It will produce full 32bit windows application. The main point of this language is that you can produce very quickly a nice interface with access to technologies like COM and OLE Automation.
Programming Language
Links
VBWire Daily news about Visual Basic, many samples and source code
Carl & Gary's Visual Basic Home Page Links, samples, components
VBNet Resource Center Good samples and news
Visual Basic Explorer For the beginner samples and help
VBQuery A search engine on VB related sites
Visual basic Mining Co Another to find VB resources
VBAdminCode Code samples to administrate and modify Windows behavior
Visual Basic used in CADCAM
In Cadcam VB is mostly used to automate some task using an proprietary API
Autocad 2000 and VBA
Example of VB macro in solid Edge
VB page for SolidWorks