early-binding

Convert Early Binding VBA to Late Binding VBA : Excel to Outlook Contacts

To use Late binding, you should declare all your Outlook-specific objects as Object: Dim olApp As Object, olNamespace As Object, olFolder As Object, olConItems As Object Then: Set olApp = CreateObject(“Outlook.Application”) This will make each computer create the olApp object from the Outlook library that is installed on it. It avoids you to set an … Read more

Early binding vs. late binding: what are the comparative benefits and disadvantages?

In my experience of both high-performance software (e.g. games, number-crunching) and performance-neutral software (websites, most everything else), there’s been one huge advantage of late binding: the malleability/maintainability/extensibility you’ve mentioned. There’ve been two main benefits of early binding. The first: Runtime performance is commonly accepted, but generally irrelevant because in most cases it’s feasible to throw … Read more