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I'm guessing that you provide the program to the users, and they use it and then order stuff or whatever based on the results.
Excel has a crippled form of VB as its macro tool , and doing the calcs using VB might be more secure -- or not.
VB itself is easy to use to do what you want -- it's pretty much what it was designed to do. You build 'forms' by putting buttons etc where you want them, and write the
program to do what you want based on the user input. VB6 was the last release. C, C++, and C# are for heavy duty stuff, Perl is for masochists, and Java seems to have become tied to web stuff.
Be aware that Microsoft is pushing this .Net concept, and there's now a VB.net This won't do anything for you, but it's linked with XP, and Microsoft will probably 'promote'
.Net by dropping support for older products ( VB6) and generally making it harder to use them.
I don't think that it will impact what you're doing, but you'll probably hear about it.
VB.net will probably be harder to use, and will only work when the .net framework
( don't ask!) is installed.
my .02
ford2go
Excel has a crippled form of VB as its macro tool , and doing the calcs using VB might be more secure -- or not.
VB itself is easy to use to do what you want -- it's pretty much what it was designed to do. You build 'forms' by putting buttons etc where you want them, and write the
program to do what you want based on the user input. VB6 was the last release. C, C++, and C# are for heavy duty stuff, Perl is for masochists, and Java seems to have become tied to web stuff.
Be aware that Microsoft is pushing this .Net concept, and there's now a VB.net This won't do anything for you, but it's linked with XP, and Microsoft will probably 'promote'
.Net by dropping support for older products ( VB6) and generally making it harder to use them.
I don't think that it will impact what you're doing, but you'll probably hear about it.
VB.net will probably be harder to use, and will only work when the .net framework
( don't ask!) is installed.
my .02
ford2go
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