In this section, we’ll examine applications compiled to native code. We won’t deal much with p-code (the normal Visual Basic situation, which seems to have changed very little from Visual Basic 4 to Visual Basic 5) aside from a brief introduction and some comparisons with native code.
As you’ve probably discovered already, Visual Basic 5 applications can now be “properly” compiled. In other words, as well as producing p-code executables (still), Visual Basic 5 can now provide a native code binary. Which compile option you choose is up to you. I suspect that most corporate developers will want to know more about this new compiler process than they ever wanted to know about p-code.