The future of Visual Basic

[MikeJarosz]

I have been told by a reliable source that future versions of Autodesk products will support Visual Studio. Not really knowing anything about it, I looked VStudio up at the Microsoft site and it looks really promising. Many new things in VB, plus (it promises) seamless integration with other languages like C# and Lisp.

I assume MS will offer VStudio with Office. Anyone know more?

[Ed Jobe]

Are you talking about a version of vs integrated similar to vba? VS is already supported, since 2005.

[MikeJarosz]

Full integration was my assumption. An Acad exec who has seen some of our customizations suggested we move on from the integrated VBA in Acad, as it has not been updated lately and there are no plans to do so....... We are on 2005, and he may be thinking 2007, so maybe there are some new things in VBA that we don't know just yet.

[Ed Jobe]

I'm still not sure what you mean by full integration. Visual Studio works like vb6 does, i.e. you need a dll or exe. It is supported by acad through the NETLOAD command. 2007 has nothing new for vba, because MS has done nothing with it. Its a dead version of vb. Vba is at version 6, and vs is at ver 9 of vb. The only thing that might change in the future is the replacement of vba with a .net version.

[Bobby C. Jones]

I think you're refering to VSTA. Here are a couple of quick links that I grabbed from google.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/vsta/default.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/vsta/default.aspx