Tag Archives: Visual Studio C++ Express

Linking Excel to C – 3; Avoiding bottlenecks

Posted on September 8, 2008 by

The previous post in this series included a C dll to solve cubic polynomial equations that could be called from VBA.  The performance of this routine is compared with a VBA routine using a similar algorithm in the sceenshot below (rows … Continue reading →

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Linking Excel to C – 2

Posted on September 3, 2008 by

In the previous post I decribed how to create four simple functions in Visual C++, and how to link them to an Excel spreadsheet or a VBA User Defined Function (UDF). This post will cover: Accessing arrays created in C++ functions … Continue reading →

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Linking Excel to C

Posted on September 2, 2008 by

One of the reasons often given for preferring programs like Matlab to Excel for scientific and engineering uses is the large body of specialist mathematical and scientific applications available to these programs.  In this and following posts I will describe how … Continue reading →

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