Vista Word and VBA + (.NET)

[Sol Apache]

I understand that VBA will be in Vista Word. Will .net programming be in it
too, and will we be able to choose to do macro recordings using .net? Can we
have some macros in VBA and other macros in .net?

 

[Tony Jollans]

Word 2007 itself does not have any .net features of that sort.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Sol, don't get too excited about .Net and Office just yet. The only
connection between .Net and Office 2007 is the "Visual Studio 2005 Tools for
Office Second Edition" package
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905543.aspx). It does not create
macros, and it does not support recording of any kind -- you have to program
it and compile it. There's a lot more information there and at the
"developer portal" http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718673.aspx.

Also, note that there's no such thing as "Vista Word"; it's Word 2007, which
is part of Office 2007.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Sol Apache]

Hi Jay
I¹m not too excited about it, just wanting to get as much information as
possible. And I think I have that now, thanks!

 

[yves]

Hi,

for what it's worth - I can confirm that even complex VBA programs run
fine with Word 2007. You only have to set Word 2007 to accept running
macro-driven (VBA) programs, because its security is a one step more
strict than previous Word versions.

Compilation (producing a COM addin) is not a must, plain old uncompiled
VBA does fine, and is very fast.

Cheers,
Yves Champollion