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Call VB6 DLL from Worksheet without VBA wrapper
Can anyone tell me how to call compiled VB6 function directly from a
cell in Excel worksheet, without creating a VBA function as a wrapper. Using a VBA wrapper causes a serious execution time overhead compared to built-n excel functions. Thanks, Lawrence |
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Call VB6 DLL from Worksheet without VBA wrapper
Hi Lawrence,
This is only possible using a special type of add-in called an Automation add-in that is only supported by Excel 2002 and higher. For versions of Excel prior to 2002, you must use a VBA wrapper in order to call a function in a VB6 DLL. -- Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP Application Professionals http://www.appspro.com/ * Please post all replies to this newsgroup * * I delete all unsolicited e-mail responses * "Lawrence" wrote in message om... Can anyone tell me how to call compiled VB6 function directly from a cell in Excel worksheet, without creating a VBA function as a wrapper. Using a VBA wrapper causes a serious execution time overhead compared to built-n excel functions. Thanks, Lawrence |
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Call VB6 DLL from Worksheet without VBA wrapper
Hi Lawrence,
I honestly haven't timed Automation add-in functions, and I'm surprised to hear that they don't provide a significant speed improvement given that they allow you to bypass VBA altogether. However, if you need native function speed, there's really only one way to get it, and that's to write your functions in an XLL using C/C++ and the Excel C API. -- Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP Application Professionals http://www.appspro.com/ * Please post all replies to this newsgroup * * I delete all unsolicited e-mail responses * "Lawrence" wrote in message om... Rob, Thanks for that. Actually, I did try that and it works... Only problem is that it's no fatser than calling a VBA function. My problem is that I have about 4000 cells calling a function I've written. I repeatedly recalculate this spreadsheet and it's very slow. But, I notice that native functions like STDEV are very fast. I was hoping that VB6 would speed me up. It's not the speed of the function itself that's the problem - I am sure compiled VB6 is very much faster than VBA. It's the overhead of calling the function... Any help apreciated, Lawrence "Rob Bovey" wrote in message ... Hi Lawrence, This is only possible using a special type of add-in called an Automation add-in that is only supported by Excel 2002 and higher. For versions of Excel prior to 2002, you must use a VBA wrapper in order to call a function in a VB6 DLL. -- Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP Application Professionals http://www.appspro.com/ * Please post all replies to this newsgroup * * I delete all unsolicited e-mail responses * "Lawrence" wrote in message om... Can anyone tell me how to call compiled VB6 function directly from a cell in Excel worksheet, without creating a VBA function as a wrapper. Using a VBA wrapper causes a serious execution time overhead compared to built-n excel functions. Thanks, Lawrence |
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