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While I appreciate the idea.... Use Javascript to replace vba in excel http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/archive/2013/03/18/excel-does-javascript-a-vba-devel

While I appreciate the idea.... Use Javascript to replace vba in excel http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/archive/2013/03/18/excel-does-javascript-a-vba-developer-s-perspective.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/archive/2013/03/18/excel-... Use python to replace vba in excel http://xlwings.org/ http://xlwings.org/

iheartmemcache 11y ago
Yeah it's not really "new". Lotus Improv was doing this 25 years ago, for those of us old fogeys who remember. 1-2-3 was for the secretaries, Improv for the power users. Also, I know know of plenty of financial institutions that have mod'd Excel with Add-ins to the point where the Worksheet integrity is better than 95% of the RDBMS' I've worked with. Version controlled, full audit trails, access control lists, type validation... Hell out of the box, you can get an out of the box Excel + SQL Server BI to essentially make an off-the-cuff Line of Business app, completely sync'd, with a Silverlight front similar to (this)[http://www.infragistics.com/uploadedImages/Content/PRODUCTS/Silverlight_DV/Controls/Pivot_Grid/silverlight-pivot-grid-silverlight-business-intelligence-dv.jpg http://www.infragistics.com/uploadedImages/Content/PRODUCTS/...]
headcanon 11y ago
True, but having a feature isn't necessarily the same as having it front-and-center as part of the experience. Also, that JS API you have linked looks pretty verbose and clunky compared to OPs.
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