Thursday, Jul 19, 2001, 12:00 AM in Tools
Smart IEnumVARIANT
Visual Basic and its variants (sic) use IEnumVARIANT to implement the For-Each statement. Unfortunately, they only ask for 1 element at a time, leading to terrible performance across apartments. I propose two solutions. One allows you to wrap any collection in a CollectionBuffer object and set the buffering yourself, e.g.
Dim collBuffer As Object Set collBuffer = CreateObject("SmartEnumSvr.CollectionBuffer") collBuffer.Collection = coll ' coll is an interface on any collection collBuffer.BufferSize = 1024 ' How many items would you like buffered? c = 0 For Each v In collBuffer ' Uses SmartEnumVARIANT to buffer items c = c + 1 Next v MsgBox "Counted " & c
The second solution allows you to leverage SmartEnumVARIANT on the server-side, seamlessly to the client. A detailed explanation and code is available here.