Visual Basic and Portfolio This document provides a brief overview of the Portfolio commands available via the Automation interface in Extensis Portfolio 8.0 for Windows. The examples covered here are written in Microsoft Visual Basic 6. The source code for the sample applications is provided in both Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET (2003) format. Users familiar with other languages capable of using Automation should be able to extrapolate from the examples for their particular languages. This document assumes a basic level of working familiarity with Visual Basic. This document is not meant to be an introduction to Visual Basic or as a tutorial for how to script Portfolio to perform specific tasks. For more information about the basics of Visual Basic, please visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/ . This site contains a great deal of useful information on Visual Basic as well as links to other programming-related websites. For more information on how to script Extensis Portfolio, please refer to the additional files provided on the Extensis CD, or with your product download.