Visual Basic Pointers

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Can you give me an example on how to make pointers and use them to manipulate the value they point at? Can you give me a string and a numeric example in visual basic? Can you send me a link to more information and a pointer reference (preferably MSDN)?

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5685/Pointers-in-Visual-Basic-using-Undocumented-Functi — Alex K., Nov 15 '12 at 16:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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Pointers can be simulated using various techniques, but there is no native pointers support in VB. See more here: Vb.net Pointers

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answered Nov 15 '12 at 07:42

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I believe that article only relates to the .Net framework rather than old skool VBA. – Alan K Nov 15 '12 at 07:46
@AlanK you're right but it's the same for the concept of pointers – SomeWittyUsername Nov 15 '12 at 07:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 15 '12 at 07:49

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VBA isn't a C family language (obviously), so as Icepack said pointers aren't really natively supported. You can take a look at the following articles:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/199824

(Though that's for VB rather than VBA; I've used some of those functions in VB6 myself but not VBA so I can't guarantee that any or all will work) and for the sake of completeness to get the address of a function:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa165194%28v=office.10%29.aspx

answered Nov 15 '12 at 07:49

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Thanks to whoever downvoted the previous upvote that I received for this answer without, naturally, leaving any indication of what your issue was with the reply. (For that would have actually been constructive and we couldn't have that; far better to skulk around sniping at answers from the darkness while contributing nothing yourself.) I am, however, happy to note that it cost you as much reputation to do it as it cost me. – Alan K Dec 01 '12 at 02:56

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