2.3. Interface Between Visual Basic and Visual C++

2.3.1. Introduction

In the last section, we discussed the advantages of calling a DLL from within Visual Basic. This calling style is especially useful in real-time control and measurement applications, such as automated test equipment, automobile manufacturing, real-time control and process, as well as semiconductor inspection and process. In those applications, time and speed are critical factors to successful implementations. Visual Basic provides good environments (Graphic User Interfaces) between the human and machine, and it integrates separate tasks to an Object-Oriented-Programming environment and connects them with a sequence of events. Visual Basic is a machine-independent language, ...

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