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3 total messages Started by gsk@idx.com Mon, 10 Jan 1994 14:58

Author: gsk@idx.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 14:58

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Hi...

   I have heard lots of rumblings that VB is not a good tool for large scale
projects... But, I have not heard specific problems explained.. Does anyone
have any experience using VB in production systems of medium to large scale
that can share the caveats to be aware of?  We are looking into at least
prototyping the front end of a client server package with VB..


   Thanks...

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Re: Limits

#26

Author: cravitma@arctic.
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 21:57

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In article <1994Jan10.200743.16967@vtf.idx.com> gsk@idx.com writes:
>
>   I have heard lots of rumblings that VB is not a good tool for large scale
>projects... But, I have not heard specific problems explained.. Does anyone
>have any experience using VB in production systems of medium to large scale
>that can share the caveats to be aware of?  We are looking into at least
>prototyping the front end of a client server package with VB..

Someone told me that Microsoft Profit, the new low-cost financial
planning package from Microsoft, was written entirely in VB. So, I
don't know why other stuff could not be done like this. (Here at MSU,
a course I am a TA for in introductory programming using VB/DOS had
students write a working VB/DOS front end to the UNIX Webster service.
We wrote the actual comm. routine -- I think in C -- and they wrote
the rest. So, I don't know why more complex communications should not
be possible, especially in VB/WIN).

/Matthew

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Re: Limits, VB Win

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Author: martin@biostat.w
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 23:51

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The 64kByte limit is slightly stretched for "huge" arrays
but not much and there is still the 16 bit integer subscript
restriction.

I have not tried Visual C but I am planning on looking into it.
VB has already caused me problems with memory utilization.

Don Martin

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