Expert One-on-One Visual Basic 2005 Design and Development
Chapter One
Language Selection
The chapters in this part of the book cover activities that occur before programming begins. They
describe development and design approaches, and some useful design techniques. Many programmers
skimp on these phases, and later pay a huge price when their initial assumptions prove
inappropriate for the application.
This chapter describes some of the issues that you should consider when picking a development
language. The book assumes you will use Visual Basic, but this chapter describes some of the language
s shortcomings. While you may stick with Visual Basic, it's worth understanding some of
the language's weak spots and what you can do about them. If you know where trouble may arise,
you can more easily cope with it. In extreme cases, you may be able to move some of the more
troublesome modules into a library written in another language such as C# or C++, and call the
library from your Visual Basic code. For example, C++ and C# handle pointers more transpar ... read full excerpt from Expert One-on-One Visual Basic 2005 Design and Development ebook
