Understanding the Benefits of Using VBA


Most of the examples you'll see for Google Web Services outside this book probably focus on Web technologies. Developers use Google Web Services to create connections to their Web site (as a search engine) or their cellular telephone (to locate necessary information on the fly). However, VBA lets you view Google Web Services from an entirely different perspective. Instead of creating a search engine connection or researching new information, using VBA with your application lets you concentrate on data ”it helps you decide how to use the data that Google provides for your own needs.

It's possible to create the kind of links described in the previous paragraph using full-fledged programming environments such as Visual Studio. You can also create a great Web environment that mimics some of these features using languages such as PHP Hypertext Processor (PHP) (yes, the acronym repeats itself ”see Chapter 7 for details). However, the point is that VBA works in concert with the host application. You don't have to write a lot of the code that you normally need to write because the host application provides the required functionality for you. In fact, if you choose the right host application, writing a Google Web Services interface can become mind-numbingly simple. Just a few lines of code will help you perform tasks in seconds, rather than hours.

So, why not write every application in VBA? To say that VBA is a cure-all for every problem is incorrect. VBA answers a specific range of needs, but doesn't handle every need. In fact, the needs that VBA answers are somewhat specialized. This chapter helps you understand some of the applications where VBA can save you considerable time and expense. It also demonstrates that you can achieve truly amazing results with just a modicum of programming. The important point is to match VBA and the host application to a particular Google Web Services application need.




Mining Google Web Services
Mining Google Web Services: Building Applications with the Google API
ISBN: 0782143334
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 157

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