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Originally posted by fluffy_lobster
Don't forget, all microsoft office products have built-in visual basic sdk too
not realy, a SDK is something else. What is included in MS Office products is VBA (or
Visual Basic for Applications).
Visual Basic for Applications is an implementation of Microsoft's Visual Basic which is built into all Microsoft Office applications, some other Microsoft applications such as Visio and is at least partially implemented in some other applications such as AutoCAD and WordPerfect. It supersedes and expands on the capabilities of earlier application-specific macro programming languages such as Word's WordBasic, and can be used to control almost all aspects of the host application, including manipulating user interface features such as menus and toolbars and working with custom user forms or dialog boxes.
As its name suggests,
VBA is closely related to Visual Basic, but can normally only run code from within a host application rather than as a standalone application. It can however be used to control one application from another (for example automatically creating a Word report from Excel data).
VBA is functionally rich and extremely flexible but it does have some important limitations, including limited support for callback functions.
In other words, VBA is very closely related to Visual Basic, but yet it is different enough to be another kind of programming language.
taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications (why trying to explain what it is when wikipedia explains it all
)
Also, if you mention VBA, then don't forget there is another variant of this in the form of a scripting language. This also comes with Windows, it is called
VBScript, and .... (blah, again go to wikipedia for the description
:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBScript_programming_language)
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