Visual Basic easily interfaced with many database products (most notably Microsoft Access) and reporting tools (most notably Crystal Reports) These however, limited application development to Microsoft Windows.
The language itself was an interpreted BASIC dialect, however speed was maintained through the use of reusable compiled libraries (DLLs and VBX controls).
Visual Basic was extremely popular for business application programming. In contrast, even the smallest Visual Basic basic programs could take reams of program code to write in C or C++. The ALT+F11 shortcut key to switch to the Visual Basic Editor is disabled, as is the ALT+F8 shortcut key to open the Run Macros dialog box.First released in 1991, Microsoft Visual Basic was a programming environment where one could build an application by visually creating the user interface first, and then adding code. The Control Toolbox is available, but none of its buttons are available. The Standard Visual Basic toolbar is still available, but it is limited to three available buttons: Security, Control Toolbox, and Microsoft Script Editor. Menu items, toolbar buttons, and shortcut keys related to VBAĪll items under the Macro submenu of the Tools menu are unavailable, such as Macros, Record New Macro, and Visual Basic Editor xll files, COM Add-ins, and Automation Add-ins are not affected by whether or not VBA is installed. When VBA is not installed, and you open a file that contains functions provided by these add-ins, Excel changes the formula results to #NAME? because the functions are unavailable. The following list contains some of the built-in add-ins that are unavailable:Īll other add-ins, including Report Manager and add-ins from third-party vendors If you open an uncompiled add-in, you receive the same warning as when you open a file that contains a regular VBA Project.
The Excel object model is still available to other programs however, other programs will not be able to automate Excel to use these programmability objects.Īn uncompiled add-in is an add-in file that was created by using VBA. If you click OK, Excel opens the file in read-only mode to ensure that the programmability components are not accidentally lost. This workbook has lost its VBA Project, ActiveX Controls and any other programmability-related features.
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