The questions plaguing users of Microsoft Excel—JavaScript support, slow Mac development cycles, the lack of Easter eggs—all apparently come down to one thing: prioritizing developer resources. The ...

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Microsoft's ubiquitous spreadsheet application, Excel, is a useful tool for small and large businesses alike. However, the Excel format is proprietary and some software applications aren't able to ...

Microsoft first announced plans to retire the Visual Basic Scripting language in 2023, giving developers and organizations ample time to prepare. The company is now reiterating ...

Enhancements in the .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 make Office automation solutions easier than ever to write and deploy. Here's an Excel automation scenario that reflects solutions that I've ...

Today’s column is directed at the vast majority of readers who think that writing programs for one of today’s multimedia personal computers is much like performing brain surgery, only not quite as ...

One of the handiest things you can do with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Office 2011 is to share data between two different Office apps. For example, let’s say you want to embed data from ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...