Let me just say that VBA is an excellent tool but now I have transitioned to C# I do not want to have to use VBA if at all possible. NET skilled developers and it makes sense to be able to use these skills wherever possible. Over time companies are going to end up having more and more. Well worry no more, you can now launch Visual Studio.NET and write your Excel code in C#!!! Oh no you think its been months since you did any VBA. NET and are busy coding award in C# or VB.NET when suddenly you get a command from the company president to build some business logic in Excel so he can manipulate some company financial data. I guess Microsoft could have produced VBA.NET and given you all sorts of funky language add-ons but instead they have taken the reverse route and now given you the ability to code excel applications in C#.NET and VB.NET! In short as soon as you tried to do anything none Excel related you were back to using APIs which was a pain. You had an Application object with let you control the errr.Application!! Then you would have worksheet objects which had cells which could be populated!Īll this was fine and cool but what if you wanted to do something like get some data from an outside source? It could be done but typically you would end up adding in declare statements for WIN32 APIs. Really coding with VBA for me was very logical.
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Or rather you are supplied with a number of objects or classes, each of which has their own methods and properties.
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If you are a BASIC Programmer you may be wondering what VBA is? Well with Microsoft Office its an object orientated way of programming using objects. The message here is that Excel is a very powerful tool and VBA just makes it even better. The other extreme was the customer who called from some government agency wondering if Excel could help him calculate ballistic trajectories. Note to worry, a short Excel VBA macro later and he was happy.
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Well normally you would update the data manually but in his case he had thousands of lines to update. One customer has a spreadsheet containing details of telephone pbxs and needed to alter some of the data on each line. If youre an Excel user you will know its a great tool for manipulating numeric data and lists.
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Each day I would take calls from customers asking how to solve different problems using Microsoft Excel and VBA or Visual Basic for Applications.
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Aren't you sick and tired of having to use different programming languages for different projects? A few years back I spent nearly 3 years working on Microsofts Excel VBA support desk.