From VBA to VSTO: Is Excel's New Engine Right for You? Gerard M. Verschuuren
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Content apps let you integrate web-based content within an Excel 2013 document. VSTO is a 2009 Ford engine for which you need a year's pay to buy all the electronic diagnostic gear. This Excel user's guide to VSTO—the new Excel Macro programming language being promoted by Microsoft—shows how to perform the equivalent VBA actions with VSTO. Excel 2013 has plenty of new features. Office 2003 came with Scripting Engine based on Javascript (not successful) and since then promoting the use of VSTO and Office PIAs in . Yes, the concept is simple but the power it offers is not to be ignored. If you use the additional stuff for non-Australians). Just had my first encounter with VSTO, trying to embed a C# macro in an Excel workbook. Get Cheapest of VSTO for Mere Mortals™: A VBA Developer's Guide to Microsoft Office Development Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office now! YOU SAVE: 32% –Steve Hansen, OfficeZealot.com, author of Mastering Excel 2003 Programming with VBA and coauthor of Mastering Excel 2000 Premium Edition. Microsoft is planning to retire VBA for while. Once inserted, they look like any other Excel object. Is Excel+VBA still worth learning, or has it had its day? Net is equally good and can used if you are already an expert in classic VB. There's no question that the IT landscape in terms of teams, tools, software, networks, and so forth have changed dramatically since 1993, when VBA, or Visual Basic for Applications, made its way into Excel. From Flash Fill to Best I can tell, Microsoft has not changed or deprecated any of our beloved client solution frameworks (VBA, COM add-ins, XLLs, EDFs, and VSTO). "Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office is Deal on Search Engine Optimization for Flash: Best Practices for Using Flash on the Web on Sale. How to enable programmatic access to VBA in Excel 2007. While these features are extremely powerful and by far irreplaceable by using any other development option, here are several reasons why you should not considering VBA as an option for your new project. Not all are free, but progressive companies will be investing in the new tech. It might not always be the best vehicle for the job (although often it is), but it gets the job done, and you don't need a special licence to drive it.