will ACAD keep VBA?

[ben.doherty]

given the improvements in C# and the free-ness of the VS express ide, will vba stay the only easy way to write easy scripts, or do you think that there will be a properly object oriented language in the next few years?

[Anonymous]

The .NET-based VBA replacement is called Visual Studio Tools for
Applications (VSTA), see http://msdn.microsoft.com/vsta. Also note that VBA
is not supported natively on 64-bit Windows.

Dan

wrote in message news:5473782@discussion.autodesk.com...
given the improvements in C# and the free-ness of the VS express ide, will
vba stay the only easy way to write easy scripts, or do you think that there
will be a properly object oriented language in the next few years?

[ben.doherty]

that's very interesting, any idea when it's going to be integrated into acad? i presume it'll have to be in 2008 for the vista release. is it me being out of the loop, or are people not making any noise about this yet?

[Anonymous]

but there is the possibility that Adesk will "make" it work even on 64 bit.
Some AU speakers said they likely would 🙂
So you probably have some time to convert to VS, and its a whole different world for sure.

J. Daniel Smith
|>The .NET-based VBA replacement is called Visual Studio Tools for
|>Applications (VSTA), see http://msdn.microsoft.com/vsta. Also note that VBA
|>is not supported natively on 64-bit Windows.
|>
|> Dan
|>
|> wrote in message news:5473782@discussion.autodesk.com...
|>given the improvements in C# and the free-ness of the VS express ide, will
|>vba stay the only easy way to write easy scripts, or do you think that there
|>will be a properly object oriented language in the next few years?
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