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VBA and Office 14

There's been some discussion on this thread on Slashdot, (updated) which started from this article in The Register UK.

To be clear, Microsoft is not replacing VBA with VSTA or VSTO in Office for Windows.  (though VSTA and VSTO are still important developer tools for Office 14)

VBA is here to stay, as was announced some time back by Steven Sinofsky. 

(Correction: Steven emailed me and corrected me that his previous statement.  I didn't want to misquote.  The words "to stay" might imply "forever", and that wasn't the intent.  I have no idea how long VBA will be supported in Office, beyond Office 14.)

The Excel and Access Blogs both have posts covering this from the Office perspective. 

Published Friday, January 18, 2008 6:04 PM by KevinBoske
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# re: VBA and Office 14

Kevin,

With the statement:

"To be clear, Microsoft is not replacing VBA with VSTA or VSTO in Office for Windows.  (though VSTA and VSTO are still important developer tools for Office 14)"

Does it mean that, in Office 14, one will be able to write code in say, Excel or Access using either VBA or VSTA?  Given that the first part of the statement confirms that VBA will remain and the only way to use VSTA is through the host app, I can't think of any other way to interpret the statement.

In reassuring developers that VBA will remain in Office 14, no one is actually saying whether VSTA will be added to Word, Excel, Access etc. and this is the one question that I'd like answered.

Thanks,

Colin

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 11:21 AM by Colin Banfield
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