From VBA to VSTO: Is Excel's New Engine Right for You? Gerard M. Verschuuren
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The authors—three of whom have been honored by Microsoft as Excel Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs)—show how to consistently make the right design decisions and make the most of Excel's most powerful new features. Once inserted, they look like any other Excel object. Excel 2013 has plenty of new features. "Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office is Deal on Search Engine Optimization for Flash: Best Practices for Using Flash on the Web on Sale. Just had my first encounter with VSTO, trying to embed a C# macro in an Excel workbook. Instead, you should have your own Monte Carlo engine running in the background and use an Excel to pass input parameters and output result between them. Master VBA error handling, debugging, and performance optimization • Develop applications based on data stored in Access, SQL Server, and other databases • Build powerful visualization solutions with Excel charting engine • Learn how to work with VB. Yes, the concept is simple but the power it offers is not to be ignored. 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. This book is for those who wonder whether they should transit from Excel/VBA to Excel/VSTO. Net is equally good and can used if you are already an expert in classic VB. 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). Office 2003 came with Scripting Engine based on Javascript (not successful) and since then promoting the use of VSTO and Office PIAs in . How to enable programmatic access to VBA in Excel 2007. Get Cheapest of VSTO for Mere Mortals™: A VBA Developer's Guide to Microsoft Office Development Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office now! Content apps let you integrate web-based content within an Excel 2013 document. I would avoid VSTO and automation add-ins like the plague - and Govert developed ExcelDna to be easy and pretty quick - for some numerically intensive VBA UDFs without any built-in Excel functions, Excel Dna is about 7-8 times quicker than VBA for very little effort; porting it to a C++/CLI . 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.