ViperSRT3g

I've got two questions from the /r/excel sub:

• Will VBA ever be replaced with VB.NET? (Or the .NET Framework?)

• Will other scripting languages be incorporated into the Office Suite?

Hello again from r/Excel! I asked this the last time, and I'm hoping I'll get an updated answer this time around:

Are there any plans to incorporate the .NET Framework directly into MS Office Suite Apps? We already have a VBE style visual editor in VS for the various languages. Are we able to get something like this to augment Excel that is even better integrated into windows than VBA? Right now the largest limitation to this is needing to convince IT departments that we would like VS installed to further improve applications and other extended services to Excel, rather than having it already built-in.

Currently we do have the inter-op services with the .NET Framework that lets us automate some aspects of Excel. But this entirely requires VS, which isn't built-in.

No online ordering methods? :P

Thanks for the answer! I've got a followup question to the details you've included here:

• Because Microsoft is becoming more familiar with Linux in general, and is potentially porting the .NET platform over to Linux as well, does this mean that a .NET Interop for Linux/Windows isn't too farfetched?