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From: Chris Miller <chrismil@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: GNATCOM & Microsoft VB
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 00:51:12 GMT
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In article <003401c07f23$82ab4820$f8ffa8c0@dbdell2000>,
  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Miller" <chrismil@my-deja.com>
>
> > However one that is interesting is to write the front end GUI part
> > using MS Visual Basic (or Visual Studio, which is VB + Visual
> > everything else), generate a COM interface to the GUI components and
> > then use GNATCOM to generate Ada 95 bindings to the COM object.
>
> It has certainly been done and does work.
>
> David Botton
>
>

Thanks for this info.

I have been studying GNATCOM for a while now and am just beginning to
appreciate what it can do. The fact that the Ada world can now, via a
language independant COM / COM+ interface, access just about everything
ever written for a (Microsoft) PC is a huge advance for Ada.

I suspect the Ada community has yet to appreciate this product ...

Would encourage others to look into this.

Will give it a try.
Chris Miller
16/01/2001
chrismil at ozemail dot com dot au


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