hi,

A friend of mine created an 'excell and macro's'-based application that he uses for the ranking of competitors (a bit like the WTA ranking system: competitores get points on each tournament that you have to defend one year later...).

But now that he inserted about 1000 competitors,...the excell-program really starts to slow down, and he also wanted to add some extra features to it...so he asked me if it would be possible to port it to a standalone VC++ application.

Now my question is -before I start coding- : Will the VC++ version (using the normal serialization and so) also start to slow down when the 'counter' hits 1000 entries?
Or should I consider making this a database-applicacation? (which I don't have a lot of experience with yet,...)

You see, I'd really give this program a shot when I'm certain of it's speed/stability whe having more than -let's say- 1500 or 2000 competitors in the list. Maybe this is a simple (stupid?) question but if someone could briefly tell me the limitations/pro's & con's of the different collection classes and so, that would really be helpful.

thx in advance!