Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 11:23:47 CDT 2007
Actually, if they kill VBA and replace it with .NET coding style, I don't much care. It would be nice if they provided a wizard to upgrade existing code, but even if they don't, anyone with VBA skills already knows a fair amount about how to write vb.net code, except for the fact that everything is a class. But that's not difficult to get over. A. On 6/1/07, Ken Ismert <kismert at gmail.com> wrote: > > > (Marty) > > Are you reading the same post. He is discussing 2007 macros and VBA ... > > Yes, the same post. Just lines below your quote, a reader asks > point-blank: > > "However do you confirm that VBA will be supported from the next release > of Access?" > > No answer. > > You can interpret that any way you care, but I don't consider that a > positive confirmation that VBA will be natively supported in Office 14. > A just-as-plausible interpretation is that VBA is replaced with VSTA in > the next Office, and we get a separate conversion/backwards > compatibility tool with read-only legacy VBA support, a-la Mac. And > Office 2007 users still have 7 or 8 years of legacy support for their > VBA apps. That scenario meets the letter of Clint's rather bland > affirmation. > > Recall, all development of VB6 and VBA ceased in 1998. Microsoft has a > 10-year legacy support window. Now, in 2008, VBA is gone in the latest > Office release. All extended support for VB6 has ceased. It would be > extraordinary for Microsoft to continue including unsupported code in > its upcoming Office releases. > > Microsoft is putting nearly a billion dollars into the next version of > Office. All of that code will be .NET code. That sounds like a complete > rewrite to me. > > In my view, the consequences of thinking maybe its time to look at new > technologies are only positive, while the consequences of assuming VBA > will always be around are neutral at best, and could potentially be bad > for your career, if you do lose your bet. > > So, I think it is incumbent on the 'VBA forever' side to come up with > the home-run: a clear affirmation of native VBA support in Office 14 > from a credible source. > > -Ken > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >