Re: Word 2003 VB IDE & VB2005

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CS Hayes <hayes.cs(remove this)@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been feeling my way around this issue. I really don't know what is
what. What provoked this question was the fact that (out of curiousity) I
looked at what version of VB the Office Suite was using (via [help], [about].)
I'm trying a trial of Office 2007 and the VBA ide is VB 6.5
am I missing something here? If MS is migrating to VB.NET then why the
release of 2007 with VB 6.5?

Because the Office division within Microsoft, unlike the Developer Tools division,
understands the peril it puts the company in if/when they abandon their customer
base. For a good explanation of this, see:

Visual Studio Magazine - Guest Opinion - Office and .NET: Better Together?
http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/2002_08/magazine/departments/guestop/

The real problem with VB.NET is that it doesn't offer a migration path for those of
us who have used MSBasic for the first *quarter-century* of its existence. What it
does is declare those decades of work to have been disposable. While it's very true
that old code often benefits (greatly!) from rewrites, it simply *cannot* be a
decision relegated to the langauge vendor. That's a decision only you, the
developer, can and should make. This fundamental principle was cast aside in this
debacle. (See my sig.)

From what I understand (and it's not a lot) VB.NET or VS2005 are external
from Office and VB 6.5 is internal or attached directly to the individual
program (i.e. Word, Excel, Access etc.) I also, apparently, grasp that it is
safe to learn VB 6.5 for Office as a tool for creating small solutions for
clients (is this true?)

True, on both accounts. And the .5 there really refers to the IDE release, not the
language itself. Very little, if anything, has changed in the language since the
6.0 release.

Can I obtain literature (books, training) on using the VB 6.5 and progress
in that direction or is it an area that is not covered? (I'm really not sure
what books to get, I just ordered "Visual Basic 2005 Step by Step" but that
wouldn't help if I was focusing on the VB 6.5)

There's lots of them, yeah! The most recent one I enjoyed was "Professional Excel
Development" (http://tinyurl.com/ys6g4t). Here's a few dedicated to Word --
http://tinyurl.com/2ykyxs -- wish I could recommend a specific one, but I'm not as
familiar with that bunch. There are also scads of good websites -- like
http://word.mvps.org -- where you can find very well crafted example code and
explanations.

Have fun... Karl
--
..NET: It's About Trust!
http://vfred.mvps.org


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