Visual Basic 6 Black Book
(Publisher: The Coriolis Group)
Author(s): Steven Holzner
ISBN: 1576102831
Publication Date: 08/01/98

Handling Financial Data

You finally landed that big programming job at MegaMegaBank—congratulations! But now there’s some trouble—just what is an “internal rate of return” anyway? Visual Basic to the rescue—there are 13 Visual Basic functions devoted entirely to financial work, and they appear in Table 3.12.

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TIP:  If you’re going to be working with financial data, checkout the Visual Basic currency data in “Declaring Variables” earlier in this chapter. The currency data type can hold values from -922,337,203,685,477.5808 to 922,337,203,685,477.5807.

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Ending A Program At Any Time

Our last topic in this chapter will be about ending programs. There are times when you want to end a program without any further ado—for example, to make an Exit menu item active. How do you do that?

You use the End statement. This statement stops execution of your program—but note that it does so immediately, which means that no Unload() or similar event handling functions are called. End just brings the program to an end, which is what it should do.

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TIP:  The Stop statement is similar to End, except that it puts the program in a break state. Executing a Stop statement, therefore, is just like running into a breakpoint—the debugger will come up.

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