Monthly Archives: March 2017

Excel JavaScript API Part 3: Benchmark of Processing Arrays Performance – Loop vs Reduce vs COUNTIFS vs VBA

Posted on March 16, 2017 by fastexcel

In a previous post I compared several different ways of processing data with VBA. The fastest way was to get the data into a variant array and loop on it. JavaScript has some powerful array methods so I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Excel JavaScript API Part 2: Benchmark of Read/Write Range Performance

Posted on March 13, 2017 by fastexcel

As an Excel Office Developer many of the Excel based applications I develop depend on reading data from Excel worksheet ranges, processing it and then writing the processed data back to a worksheet. In VBA the way to do this … Continue reading →

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Excel Range.Value(ValueType): What is this parameter?

Posted on March 13, 2017 by fastexcel

Whilst visiting Microsoft Research in Cambridge I was chatting to fellow MVP Roger Govier. He mentioned that he was using this strange parameter to the Range.Value (ValueType) method, which I had been meaning to look at for a long time … Continue reading →

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Excel JavaScript API Part 1: Overview & Comparison

Posted on March 13, 2017 by fastexcel

I have been spending time in the last few months experimenting with the new JavaScript Excel API. This is the first of a planned series of posts examining the JS-API from the point of view of an Excel Office developer. … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, JS-API, UDF, Uncategorized, VBA, XLL | Tagged , , , , | 10 Comments