Since June 1996, when we first announced the Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) licensing program, we have been offering VBA for licensing to Independent Software Vendors and others who wished to integrate VBA into their own applications. As previously announced, Microsoft does not expect to make significant enhancements to VBA. This does not impact the current support commitments for VBA in any way, and of course, it does not impact any license arrangements that are in force. In particular, this does not impact VBA in Microsoft Office products.
As of July 1, 2007, Microsoft will no longer offer VBA distribution licenses to new customers. Existing VBA customers can still purchase additional VBA licenses from Microsoft for existing solutions.
Summit/Microsoft Partnership Information
Effective July 1, 2011, Microsoft will move technical support for both Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) in-house. Summit Software will continue to provide business operations support for both technologies. For more information, please see the transition document.
Articles and Whitepapers
Convert VBA Code to Visual Basic .NET When Migrating to Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Convert code from Visual Basic for Applications to Visual Basic .NET when migrating to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System. This document highlights the reasons to migrate, the major code conversion issues, and additional resources for further details. (March 2005)
Overview of Code Snippets Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office IntelliSense code snippets for Visual Studio Tools for Office provide a quick start for Word and Excel development tasks in Visual Studio, Version 2005 Beta 1, including data import/export, collaboration, and integration with Excel and Word controls. (December 2004)
What's New in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office The new features of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version 2005, include the project system, a visual designer for Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003, view controls, actions pane support, visual data binding, data caching, and server-side programming. (October 2004)
VBA Language References Find links to download the VBA language references, for Office 2003 as well as links to online versions of the language references for prior versions of Office.
No Evaluation CD is available for the VBA 6.5 SDK, but there are two other methods for access.
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