Performance becomes an issue with large datasets too. A poorly written macro can bog down Excel and take forever to complete, ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel offers Visual Basic for Application (VBA) as a scripting tool to let you add additional functionality to your Excel spreadsheets. You can use VBA to prompt the user to enter a filename ...

Microsoft announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

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 ...