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From VBA to VSTO: Is Excel's New Engine Right for You? Gerard M. Verschuuren
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This book is for those who wonder whether they should transit from Excel/VBA to Excel/VSTO. Learn how to develop desktop applications using the new features of VB.NET 2005, such as DataGridView From VBA to VSTO: Is Excel's New Engine Right for You? I quite liked how FsNotebook organized the code into blocks and separated the inputs and outputs, so I followed the same idea: you can add new sections at the top and evaluate each one separately, and see the result at the bottom. Also there is the option to use the new excel file format , xlsx files are a zip file that have xml inside. Office 2003 came with Scripting Engine based on Javascript (not successful) and since then promoting the use of VSTO and Office PIAs in . 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. Microsoft is planning to retire VBA for while. I am looking to put a combobox in a cell that is populated with season codes from a database. Net is equally good and can used if you are already an expert in classic VB. Professional Excel Development: The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft Excel, VBA, and .NET. From VBA to VSTO: Is Excel's New Engine Right for You? I am still toying with the idea of using FSI from within Excel – wouldn't it be nice if, instead of having to resort to VBA or C# via VSTO, I could leverage F#, with unfettered access to . VSTO development that does stuff in office uses the same api that you use in VBA to make things happen. How to enable programmatic access to VBA in Excel 2007. There is a .net sdk to I will check on VSTO again. Just had my first encounter with VSTO, trying to embed a C# macro in an Excel workbook. Raihan wrote: good and nice post. Select a season code and the combobox and the cell to the right is populated with styles for the season.