Chapter 7 -- Minutiae

Chapter 7 Some Stuff About Visual Basic

PETER J. MORRIS

In addition to being a "doer," Peet also thinks and talks about writing code and is a frequent speaker at international conferences, such as VBITS and Microsoft's DevCon and TechEd. This book is Peet's second foray into the world of book writing—his first occurred about the time he was working at Microsoft when he wrote Windows: Advanced Programming and Design (now as rare as duck's teeth), which was a pure API, C, and Assembler SDK book.

As you can probably guess from its title, this chapter is going to cover a rather broad range of information about Visual Basic. Think of this chapter as a Visual Basic programmer's smorgasbord. You'll learn about such topics as the advantages and disadvantages of compiling to p-code and native code. You'll get some hints on how to optimize your applications beyond just writing excellent code. And you'll also receive up-to-the-minute information on such scintillating subjects as types and type libraries. So let's begin!