Programming for PC's on a Mac

Is the only way to create an .EXE application for PC's on a Mac is by using an emulator and running the programming language on that? When problems arise due to working on a PC with Windows/Drivers etc. they can get in the way due to unreliability. Any work on a Mac I have carried out has been complication free i.e. any errors are due to me! I have heard of Mac programmers creating PC software, but is using emulation the only way?

In addition to Daniel and Mark's excellent points in their posts, I'd add that if you stick to the standard VB language, w/o using WLLs, or calls to Windows API routines, you should (depending upon your needs) be able to write VB code that will work on both the Mac and Windows platforms. Some newer VB 6.0 functions like split and join  are not ported to the Mac version. Versions of these functions have been posted on the Web (by people moving up from VB4.x for example), so you can still use them by "rolling your own".
But, in the coding I've done in VB on the Mac, the parts of the language that is specific to the Mac is "ususally" indicated in the on-line VB help files. If you haven't already done so, I'd also recommend making sure you have the latest software patches installed from Microsoft for your version of Office (for Office X the latest is 10.1.6 ie. 6 patches have been released), since these patches have fixed some known problems in VB on the Mac.
Ed
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