Format
Visual Basic Form File
Summary
- Name
- Visual Basic Form File
- Version
- 4 onwards
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1541
- Format type
- Text (Unstructured)
- Description
- The .frm file format was created by early versions of Visual Basic to distinguish between different item types. First released in 1991, Visual Basic was declared legacy in 2008. It provided a GUI which allowed users to modify code by dragging and dropping objects and defining their behaviour and appearance.
- File extensions
-
frm - Submitted by
- National Library of Australia / National Library of Australia
- Developed by
- Microsoft Corporation
- Supported by
- Microsoft Corporation
Relationships
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
Visual Basic Form File (Version 4 onwards)
- Description
- BOF (magic bytes): VERSION {1-4}..Begin VB.Form frm
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
56455253494F4E20{1-4}0D0A426567696E2056422E466F726D2066726D- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V100
- Release date
- 16 December 2021
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Added format
Visual Basic Form File (4 onwards): Full entry added. Submitted by The National Library of Australia.
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Added signature
Visual Basic Form File (4 onwards): Signature researched and samples provided by The National Library of Australia.