Web browser automation (using Microsoft’s Web Browser) is not an easy task in VBA when doing some Web Scraping. Excel is certainly a great tool for building your web automation scripts but at every corner you find some obstacles. For me the most challenging was always the nondeterministic state of the IE browser control whenever […]
There are many different articles and post on improving Excel performance. What I personally was missing was a simple, comprehensive, short overview of how the performance of VBA macros can be improved without needing to read through long articles on how the Excel compiler works. That is why I gathered all VBA performance guidelines into […]
The VBA Multithreading Tool, from AnalystCave.com, is a free and open source tool (VBA) for enhancing your VBA Project with Mulithreading capabilities. It was designed to make VBA multithreading quick an easy and to minimize the complexity of your VBA code. VBA is natively singlethreaded hence will utilize only a single logical processor core. Why […]
First let me start with explaining what does it mean to invoke VBA functions and procedures from strings. Then I will follow with an example. Lastly I will conclude this topic showing how you can add arguments. Invoke VBA functions and procedures by string name Normally you would invoke a VBA function or procedure like […]
Yet again I am approaching the subject of multithreading in VBA. This time I am coming with an interesting alternative to multithreading in VBA compared to the ones I presented previously. So again let me start by repeating that multithreading is possible in VBA but not in “native” VBA. What do I mean by “native”? […]