(
Micro
Soft
Visual
Basic
Virtual
Machine [xx=version #]
.DLL) The Visual Basic runtime module starting with VB 5. MSVBVMxx contains necessary runtime functions and also provides the interpreter for Visual Basic applications that are compiled to bytecode rather than native machine code. All Visual Basic applications prior to VB 5, and optionally in VB 5, are compiled into an intermediate "bytecode" language, which the runtime module turns into machine language on the fly. See
VBRUNxxx.DLL and
Visual Basic.