Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Wed Oct 10 16:11:35 CDT 2012
That's not the way I read that article at all. MS are now developing a Javascript API to manipulate office documents on locked down "devices" through a browser interface. It says nothing about COM being depreciated nor about VBA being replaced. -- Stuart On 10 Oct 2012 at 9:25, Jim Lawrence wrote: > VB as we know it, as far as Office 13 and beyond may (will) be dead. > > The Office products will no longer support Visual Basic except within > macros. I would assume this functionality or lack of it will also extend to > Access as well. > > Not to worry, according to the attached linked article, another scripted > language will replace VB. Office applications will now support JavaScript > programming. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/07/microsoft_apps_for_office/ > > Aside: I do like the new TypeScript editor but for some reason the product > removed the requirement to put a semi-colon at the end of each line. Many > years ago it took me a long time to learn to drop the semi-colon and then it > took a while to relearn to add the semi-colon and now I have to learn to > drop it again. :-( I think it should be a rule that all languages are > required to have a semi-colon at the end of a line of code. It makes it so > easy to unscramble compressed code blocks... > > Jim > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >