[AccessD] Visual basic may be dead

Yeah, maybe a little premature...

Jim

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 2:12 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Visual basic may be dead

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
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