LotusScript is an

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used by

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(since version 4.0) and other

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products. LotusScript is similar to

Visual Basic Visual Basic is a name for a family of programming languages from Microsoft. It may refer to: * Visual Basic (.NET), the current version of Visual Basic launched in 2002 which runs on .NET * Visual Basic (classic), the original Visual Basic suppo ...

. Developers familiar with one can easily understand the syntax and structure of code in the other. The major differences between the two are in their respective

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s and in the product-specific

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classes provided in each language that are included. VB includes a richer set of classes for UI manipulation, whereas LotusScript includes a richer set of application-specific classes for

, Lotus Word Pro and

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. In the case of Lotus Notes, there are classes to work with Notes databases, documents (records) in those databases, etc. These classes can also be used as

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objects outside the Lotus Notes environment, from Visual Basic. LotusScript also allows the definition of user-defined

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and classes, although it is not possible to inherit from the product-specific classes. LotusScript programs can access

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documents by using the

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automation in

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from MS Office.

References

External links

Lotus Domino Designer documentation

IBM Redbook - "LotusScript for VisualBasic Programmers"

Integrating IBM Lotus Notes with Microsoft Office using LotusScript
{{Authority control BASIC programming language family Lotus Software software Scripting languages

See also

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