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Splitting an Add-in package over several Add-ins
I am concerned that an add-in of my design is ballooning to become
unwieldy. Does anyone have any tips, advice, warnings about splitting it up over several add-ins, only a few of which are loaded at a time to respond to user actions? Or would it be better to leave in a single add-in? What is the size at which an add-in becomes too large? I know these are all vague questions, but even fuzzy answers would be better than none. Thanks! |
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Splitting an Add-in package over several Add-ins
"R Avery" wrote in message ... I am concerned that an add-in of my design is ballooning to become unwieldy. Does anyone have any tips, advice, warnings about splitting it up over several add-ins, only a few of which are loaded at a time to respond to user actions? Or would it be better to leave in a single add-in? What is the size at which an add-in becomes too large? I know these are all vague questions, but even fuzzy answers would be better than none. Thanks! As a general rule consider splitting out functions that are generic enough to use in other applications. At the very least put your code in multiple code modules and document it internally with lots of comments. There's little more frustrating tha having to debug an app with no information about what its supposed to be doing and you'd be surprised how little time it takes to lose track of what code is supposed to be doing even when you wrote it yourself You may want to consider moving to compiled dll's or COM add-ins which offer rather more security for your code than a conventional add-in and which as registered components are somewhat easier to keep up to date if your application is distributed. Keith. |
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