I need to encode a 100KB+ string as base64 in VBA. Are there any built-in functions or COM objects available which will do this as a pure VBA approach is either complex or doesn't scale well at these volumes (see links from dbb and marxidad)?
解决方案
You can use the MSXML Base64 encoding functionality as described at www.nonhostile.com/howto-encode-decode-base64-vb6.asp:
Function EncodeBase64(text As String) As String
Dim arrData() As Byte
arrData = StrConv(text, vbFromUnicode)
Dim objXML As MSXML2.DOMDocument
Dim objNode As MSXML2.IXMLDOMElement
Set objXML = New MSXML2.DOMDocument
Set objNode = objXML.createElement("b64")
objNode.dataType = "bin.base64"
objNode.nodeTypedValue = arrData
EncodeBase64 = objNode.Text
Set objNode = Nothing
Set objXML = Nothing
End Function