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I am trying to develop a Windows-based application and am having difficulty deciding whether to use visual C++ or visual basic. The application will interface with an MSAccess database but will also have to call on certain MSWord and MSExcel documents. What are the criteria that I should consider when deciding which is the most appropriate?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Tesita:)
If you're familiar with C/C++ then go for Visual C++.. if you would like a nice easy task, use Visual Basic. Visual Basic is far easier to use than C/C++.. so it depends on what you know and how easy you want it to be for you. :)
Personally, I'd use Visual Basic as it's easier to make the program of your criteria and would mean less fuss.
VB is way easier than VC. I like VC more, but you will get a faster and less complicated results in VB.
What about memory usage? Is there a "great" difference between the two?
Tesita
Well, you would have the extra overhead of a 1.3MB VB runtime DLL being loaded along with your program, but apart from that (and particularly in your circumstances) there is little difference in terms of memory usage.
For a job like that, yup, VB.
Sounds like you could do what you want with just VBA built into access.
I have used it to write Word mailmerge letters from data in the database and also theres a cute "TransferSpreadsheet" Macro that outputs tables to Excel......
visual basic can be really slow expecially with very large databases, for smaller files you won't notice it too much