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From VBA to VSTO: Is Excel's New Engine Right for You? Gerard M. Verschuuren
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Instead, you should have your own Monte Carlo engine running in the background and use an Excel to pass input parameters and output result between them. Raihan wrote: good and nice post. There is a .net sdk to I will check on VSTO again. I am still toying with the idea of using FSI from within Excel – wouldn't it be nice if, instead of having to resort to VBA or C# via VSTO, I could leverage F#, with unfettered access to . I quite liked how FsNotebook organized the code into blocks and separated the inputs and outputs, so I followed the same idea: you can add new sections at the top and evaluate each one separately, and see the result at the bottom. It might not always be the best vehicle for the job (although often it is), but it gets the job done, and you don't need a special licence to drive it. I would avoid VSTO and automation add-ins like the plague - and Govert developed ExcelDna to be easy and pretty quick - for some numerically intensive VBA UDFs without any built-in Excel functions, Excel Dna is about 7-8 times quicker than VBA for very little effort; porting it to a C++/CLI . I am looking to put a combobox in a cell that is populated with season codes from a database. VSTO is a 2009 Ford engine for which you need a year's pay to buy all the electronic diagnostic gear. VSTO development that does stuff in office uses the same api that you use in VBA to make things happen. Not all are free, but progressive companies will be investing in the new tech. If you use the additional stuff for non-Australians). Is Excel+VBA still worth learning, or has it had its day? Also there is the option to use the new excel file format , xlsx files are a zip file that have xml inside. Select a season code and the combobox and the cell to the right is populated with styles for the season. This Excel user's guide to VSTO—the new Excel Macro programming language being promoted by Microsoft—shows how to perform the equivalent VBA actions with VSTO.