Monthly Archives: July 2012

From VBA to C Part 9 – the additional Types of UDF you can create in an XLL

Posted on July 20, 2012 by fastexcel

In VBA you can create a UDF that returns any VBA datatype, but there are really only 2 kinds of UDFs: Volatile and Non-Volatile. In the C XLL UDF world there are several other types that you can create. Features … Continue reading →

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From VBA to C Part 8 – Using Containers from the Standard Template Library

Posted on July 11, 2012 by fastexcel

In the VBA world we make a lot of use of arrays and Collections. And we can also use the Dictionary object from the VBScript library by adding a reference to the VBScripting runtime. All of these are types of … Continue reading →

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Comparing Two Lists – VBA UDF shootout between Linear Search, Binary Search, Collection and Dictionary

Posted on July 10, 2012 by fastexcel

I often run into the problem of having to compare two lists in Excel, to see what items are in the list to look for that can’t be found in the list to look in. So when I saw Dick … Continue reading →

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Makeing the most of your XIPS Part2 – when 40 MXIPS for AVERAGEIFS is too slow

Posted on July 9, 2012 by fastexcel

Peter wants to calculate a rolling average over 600K rows. His data consists of a Timestamp in Column A and a Value in column B: +-Timestamp-+-value-+ | 1340816430|  .02  | ——————— He is using an array formula in each of … Continue reading →

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From VBA to C Part 7 – Developing an XLL array function

Posted on July 7, 2012 by fastexcel

In a post last year I showed how to develop an array version of the VBA AverageTol UDF. This was a simple and not very useful extensionto the AverageTol function that allowed the function to return an array of results … Continue reading →

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From VBA to C Part 6 – Argument Types – VBA Variants, Ranges and Doubles vs C++ Values, References and Doubles

Posted on July 5, 2012 by fastexcel

In my previous series of posts on “Writing Efficient VBA UDFs – Parts 1 to 10” I spent some time discussing how the data type you use for function arguments can have a large effect on performance. Well the same … Continue reading →

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