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Greetings,
Can one use VB and the MS OLE server with SuperCharts, or is this
feature only available to TradeStation users?
Regards,
Joe Balsamo
>I found that carefully crafted VB3 and VB4 outperformed same functions
in
>commercial apps such as Metastock and SuperCharts which are presumably
written
>in C. With the significantly increased performance of VB5 I would
expect that VB
>apps of quality comparable to C++ apps would run at close (probably
80%) to the
>same speed. Given the huge difference in code productivity writing in
VB I think
>there is no contest for 99% of coding. I might consider C++ if I had an
>extremely long running, computationally intensive process.
>
>Earl
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: r v <rvince99@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: Earl Adamy <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
><omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: heypeter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <heypeter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Sunday, May 10, 1998 12:02 AM
>Subject: Re: Creating DLL's
>
>
>>
>>I agree with Earl.....VB is terrific, and now that you can combine
>>it's power with Excel through VBA, and MOST quote services support
>>drag & drop DDE links to Excel.....well, you get the idea I think.
>>
>>THe only reason I still write DLL's in C is because I've never written
>>one in VB. FOr awhile, I had the notion (which may be true, may still
>>be true, or I may be mistaken altogether) that C is a lot faster than
>>VB. I'm not sure of this, but I would write apps in VB because you can
>>write them in 1/5 th the time it takes to write it in C, then, for
>>"muscle" intensive routines, write them as a C DLL called by the vb
>>app.......this may still be the way to go, I'm not sure. -Ralph
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>---Earl Adamy <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been doing VB for years and don't buy much in the way of books
>>so can't
>>> make much in the way of recommendations. I've developed
>>professionally in
>>> perhaps a dozen plus languages over my prior career as a software
>>developer and
>>> VB is as good as it gets in balancing power and productivity. I used
>>to do a bit
>>> of C and C++ when I needed super performance but don't bother
>>anymore because VB
>>> is close in performance and it's a lot faster to write. DLL's are
>>now referred
>>> to as OLE client and OLE server objects. You won't go wrong learning
>>VB if you
>>> get a book which takes you step by step through creating basic
>>objects whether
>>> as programs, clients, or servers - it's probably the best way to
>>learn both
>>> programming and VB. Of course you may find that the effort of
>>learning and
>>> writing real programs will greatly diminish your time for trading.
>>>
>>> Earl
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: heypeter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <heypeter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: Earl Adamy <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Friday, May 08, 1998 12:14 PM
>>> Subject: Creating DLL's
>>>
>>> >I'm interested in learning how to create DLL's too but am not a
>>trained
>>> >programmer. Could you recommend a text book, URL's etc for me?
>>Also
>>> >which language would you suggest, Visual Basic or C++ or?, and why?
>>> >
>>> >Thanks in advance
>>> >
>>> >Peter Chan
>>>
>>>
>>
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