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Originally Posted by jjshabado
This isn't true now that VB generally refers to VB.net. VB6 was horrible.
Oh i wasn't aware of that, but from some googling you are definitely correct. I always classified them as three 'different' subsets of VB (VBA, VB and .NET).
It seems like there is a belief that microsoft is trying to phase out VBA in favour of vb.net, are you a .net programmer? any comments on advantages? switching process? I think i remember reading that it is OO, I have some history with java so i imagine the switch, at least on a conceptual level wouldn't be too difficult.
Even if they do phase out VBA in office 2012+ (conservative guess, according to a quick search it looks like they have removed it from autoCAD 2010) at the current rate of adoption I can't really seeing it being a huge issue for the next 5 years.
How does it run? Are they standalone applications? Can i put a button in excel that will run a .NET script? I assume you need an IDE (visual studio?) I'll probably download it in the next couple of weeks when I have some time.