MS Office and C#/ .NET

[Mark Broadbent]

Anybody know of Microsoft's intent to make C# and other .net languages fully
supported within Word, Excel, Access etc? How my heart sank when I went into
Word 2003 code editor only to find its still VBA aghh nasty. Been trying to
forget the horrors of VBA now for a while, suddenly to realize I might have
been a little hasty?

--
Br,
Mark Broadbent
mcdba , mcse+i
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[Mark Broadbent]

yeah thanks will have a look at that, however one of the reasons I ask is
that Ive been playing with word's comsumption of web services using the
office 2003 web services toolkit 2.01.
Unfortuately proxy classes are created in vba (Urrrgh yuk ;). What I am
hoping for is that MS will be announcing full blow .net interoperability in
MSOffice inside and outside -so for instance I could choose to create this
proxy code and use it within any of the .net language.

If anyone has heard of such an announcement I would be happy to know of it?
--
Br,
Mark Broadbent
mcdba , mcse+i
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"Daniel Jin" <Da*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:92**********************************@microsof t.com...

there's also PIA available that allows you to develop plugins for Office using C# and VB.NET. VS.NET 2k3 even includes templates for these projects.
for office xp, you can download the PIA from microsoft website, and for
office 2k3, it can be installed from the cd.
"Mark Broadbent" wrote:

Anybody know of Microsoft's intent to make C# and other .net languages fully supported within Word, Excel, Access etc? How my heart sank when I went into Word 2003 code editor only to find its still VBA aghh nasty. Been trying to forget the horrors of VBA now for a while, suddenly to realize I might have been a little hasty?

--
Br,
Mark Broadbent
mcdba , mcse+i
=============

[Daniel Jin]

"Mark Broadbent" wrote:

yeah thanks will have a look at that, however one of the reasons I ask is
that Ive been playing with word's comsumption of web services using the
office 2003 web services toolkit 2.01.
Unfortuately proxy classes are created in vba (Urrrgh yuk ;). What I am
hoping for is that MS will be announcing full blow .net interoperability in
MSOffice inside and outside -so for instance I could choose to create this
proxy code and use it within any of the .net language.

If anyone has heard of such an announcement I would be happy to know of it?

nope, haven't heard such a thing. but I'm fairly optimistic. looking at the way things are going, that .NET is very much where the future of MS lies, I'm fairly certain that office will become a runtime host. I wouldn't be surprised if the next major release of Office gets it.

[Mark Broadbent]

u r right, that is what I am hoping too. It would also help promote C# and
..NET tenfold. Thanks for the input.

--
Br,
Mark Broadbent
mcdba , mcse+i
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"Daniel Jin" <Da*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C9**********************************@microsof t.com...

"Mark Broadbent" wrote:

yeah thanks will have a look at that, however one of the reasons I ask is that Ive been playing with word's comsumption of web services using the
office 2003 web services toolkit 2.01.
Unfortuately proxy classes are created in vba (Urrrgh yuk ;). What I am
hoping for is that MS will be announcing full blow .net interoperability in MSOffice inside and outside -so for instance I could choose to create this proxy code and use it within any of the .net language.

If anyone has heard of such an announcement I would be happy to know of

it?
nope, haven't heard such a thing. but I'm fairly optimistic. looking at

the way things are going, that .NET is very much where the future of MS
lies, I'm fairly certain that office will become a runtime host. I wouldn't
be surprised if the next major release of Office gets it.