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Microsoft Says VBA Is Here To Stay

Posted by kdawson on from the thought-we'd-seen-the-back-of-it dept.

Angostura writes "Microsoft's team blog for Microsoft Excel and Excel Services has responded with a denial to the earlier report that Visual Basic for Applications will disappear from Windows Office in 2009. The Slashdot discussion on the report on Tuesday got pretty animated."

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  1. Actually, no. Did you RTFA before submitting? by BobMcD · · Score: 4, Informative

    The link that _I_ clicked took me to a blog that said that VBA was no longer supported, and that the licensing program had gone away. To me this means 'dead'. No support and no license means that no reputable vendor is going to nail any new shingles to this product. Any future offerings using VBA are destined to be either snakeoil or shareware.

    Am I missing something here?

  2. Re:So Microsoft is at least still a *little* evil by kestasjk · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's no way they were going to release an Office suite without any macro capability, but the blow is that they aren't replacing it with .NET .

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  3. Re:How about using .Net? by andy9701 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Isn't that what Visual Studio Tools for Office does? I've never really looked into it much, but my understanding was that it was a .NET replacement for writing Office apps with VBA.