Does anyone know if the 2008 express editions include the office templates?
<fingers crossed

Thanks,
Keith

"Chip Pearson" wrote in message
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If you are really going to move to the NET world, you should wait for
Visual Studio 2008, due out, I think, Q1 2008. It comes standard with a
new version of VSTO integrated into the IDE. You'll get a lot more
templates, depending on what Office programs you have installed. In
VS2008, I get 14 Office 2007 project templates and 10 Office 2003 project
templates.


--
Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel, 10 Years
Pearson Software Consulting
www.cpearson.com
(email on the web site)


"Don" wrote in message
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Thanks. Your web site will be quite helpful. Although I have a few years
expereince using VBA I am new to Visual Studio and know nothing of
windows
programming or .NET. For sure there is lots of info out there - right
now
I'm "drinking from the firehose".

"Chip Pearson" wrote:

Create a VB.NET Class Library and write your functions in that library.
This
is straight NET, no VSTO required.
http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/Creati...nctionLib.aspx

Personally, I think NET will be MUCH more tightly integrated with Office
(not via VSTO/SE, which strikes me as something of a hack job to get
*something* NET-related into Office) long before we see the demise of
VBA.
(Remember, XLM is/was supported 12 years after is was made "obsolete" by
VBA.) There are millions upon millions of lines of VBA out in the world.
I
doubt MS would abandon all of that code. VB6 is still fully supported
(as in
it works, not as in MS provides tech support or updates) 6 years after
is
was made obsolete by NET.

It is just my opinion, but NET has a long way to go to make it easily
integrated with Office.

--
Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel, 10 Years
Pearson Software Consulting
www.cpearson.com
(email on the web site)


"Don" wrote in message
...
I read somewhere that Microsoft plans to drop support for VBA/VBE in
office
apps in future releases of office for 64 bit OS. Remembering how fast
the
uptake of 16 to 32 bit systems was, I figure it won't be long that
most
office workstations will be 64 bit OS, so I decided to learn about
VSTO.

One of the first things I learned was that you can't create UDFs in
VSTO -
you have to use VBA (while VBA can interact with VSTO objects, you
still
need
VBA).

So, the missing piece of info I have not been able to track down is
how we
will be able to create UDF's in excel for environments where VBA is no
longer
supported. Perhaps I have misundestood something I read?