Excel Add-in Development in C/C++
Chapter One
Introduction
1.1 TYPOGRAPHICAL AND CODE CONVENTIONS USED
IN THIS BOOK
To distinguish between the text of the book, Visual Basic code, C/C++ code, and Excel
worksheet functions, formulae and cell references, the following fonts are used throughout:
Excel functions and formulae Arial
Windows application menus and control button text Arial
Visual Basic code Lucida Console
C/C++ code Courier
Directory paths, file names and file masks Courier
Passages of source code appear as boxed text in the appropriate font.
The spelling and grammar used throughout this book are British Isles English, with the
occasional Microsoft extension such as dialog.
Examples of non-VB code are mostly in C++-flavoured C. That is, C written in C++
source modules so that some of the useful C++ features can be used including:
the declaration of automatic variables anywhere in a function body;
the use of the bool data type with associated true and false values;
the use of call-by-reference arguments;
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