I am using VB (amongst other things) to build front-office systems for a
large international securities house in London. It seems to be well suited
to the environment for the following reasons:
– dealer applications are graphical so a GUI is a good idea –
they like to multitask so Windows 3 is the obvious choice – their
requirements change daily and sometimes hourly so we need a
system that can be rebuilt very easily. VBs 4GL like environment is
perfect for this. – VBs DDE handling allows realtime price
information to be pulled into
Windows across a network and then distributed amongst applications.
– VB has the ability to cut and paste to Excel/Word-4-W for
research ideas/documents
I particularly like the ability of VB to use custom controls and DLLs.
This means that we can create application "building blocks" and just use VB
as a kind of proprietary glue.
I am particularly interested in hearing from anybody with similar
experiences or comments on this application of VB. Also anyone who has
experience of calling the Gupta SQL-Windows API from VB.
Graham