Talk:Visual Basic for Applications: Difference between revisions

 

==[[Object-Oriented Programming]]==

 

VBW (the original version of VBA, effectively its predecessor, only available on MS Word [hence VBW - Visual Basic for Winword]) ought to be mentioned on here. -- [[Special:Contributions/134.225.165.163|134.225.165.163]] ([[User talk:134.225.165.163|talk]]) 02:53, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

:Could you please insert a correct explanation of the relationship between VBA and object-oriented languages, then? It seems important. --[[User:Jules.lt|Jules.LT]] ([[User talk:Jules.lt|talk]]) 13:20, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

::There's not all that much that I can add. There are quite a few characteristics of OO Programming in VBA, like classes and some kind of constructors (but not conversion constructors), destructors, and instance methods. OTOH, VBA doesn't support inheritance. All this is my [[WP:OR]]; if anything like this should make it into the article, it needs reliable sources better than a quote from a web forum. -- [[User:Michael Bednarek|Michael Bednarek]] ([[User talk:Michael Bednarek|talk]]) 07:18, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

 

==Recent Update==

 

=="Hundreds of applications"?==

Office, Autocad, Intellicad... anything else? Mathcad and Visual Basic Script.

:It looks like the reference to "Hundreds of applications" was removed some time ago. Btw - Visual Basic Script is an independent implementation of Visual Basic based syntax. It is not an application of VBA. [[User:Adamralph|Ralphy]] 09:45, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 

==Examples==

 

[[User:Snakeyes060280]] - why have you added 'DAO' library qualifications to the object names? [[User:Adamralph|Ralphy]] 16:32, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

 

== Where is there a VBA language reference/specificaation? ==

==Advert?==

This article was tagged [[advert]] today. I must say I don't really agree. Anyone in for some discussion? [[User:Classical geographer|Classical geographer]] 22:03, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

 

== UserForms aren't "part of the language" are they? ==

 

Additional Note: You can get string, object, and variable pointers via the VarPtr, StrPtr, and ObjPtr functions built into the VBA library.<ref>http://vb.mvps.org/tips/varptr.asp</ref>[[User:Oorang|Oorang]] ([[User talk:Oorang|talk]]) 19:29, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

 

== Infobox ==

VBA msdn home page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/isv/bb190538.aspx

embedded VBA replacement product: http://www.winwrap.com/web/basic/default.asp

==Jargon-laden/buzzword-speak introduction==

This article's introduction suffers from jargon-laden computer-ese vacuous [[buzzword]]-speak. Words like flexible, dynamic, are just gimmicks and explain nothing.[[User:Dogru144|Dogru144]] ([[User talk:Dogru144|talk]]) 21:55, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

 

Shekhar <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/124.247.241.138|124.247.241.138]] ([[User talk:124.247.241.138|talk]]) 11:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

:The official reason given was that VBA relied heavily on machine code written for the PowerPC architecture, and that rewriting this code for dual PowerPC/Intel architectures would have added another 2 years to the development of the suite.

I would have guessed that VBA relied on the Intel architecture and that it had not been ported to the PowerPC. Perhaps the[[Microsoft P-Code]] engine is implementing a PowerPC? Unfortunately, the "official reason" did not have a citation and so I can't tell if it's wrong or I don't understand something. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]&#124;[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 22:56, 25 February 2013 (UTC)