Comments on: Microsoft, you just get office developers don’t you?

by: Jan Karel Pieterse

Thu, 15 May 2008 06:45:02 +0000

Given what we’ve discussed during the MVP Summit (which I will not disclose!!) I don’t worry much about messages like this one. We’ll see what comes and I’ll use the tools that are available and most fit for the job at hand.

Petr: VBA dead? Doesn’t bring money? You’re so wrong. I make a living being an Office dev and I am completely overwhelmed with (properly paid) work. VBA/Office experts are a rare breed and highly in demand. Note the most important word in the previous sentence: “experts”. That is what it takes to run a serious business as an Office developer.

by: Petr Pechacek

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:08:39 +0000

For first, I am sorry for my English…

I think, it is stupid joke, how to Microsoft entices people with Visual Studio 2008. VBA is dead. It is old and doesn’t bring money. But Office 2007 and affiliated technologies are so young. And Ribbon? With or without Ribbon Designer in Visual Studio 2008? Very very outsanding for ordinary developers.

by: alderaic

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:47:13 +0000

woho nice, do they know that in some companies a single excel/vba person can make the company save thousands of dollars a year just by automating stupid tasks etc…

I cannot remember how many times I took someone’s job and reduced something that was taking a day to a 15 mins macro, of course you would say that the IT dept could have automated it, but thats the thing, they dont have the time nor the ressources to work on such small things and thats where the VBa devs are priceless.

Of course they have to stay in the office to fix and arrange those macros but in the end is quite a valuable asset and all the companies I know are using one or two and could not do without

by: Mike

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:59:15 +0000

They dont WANT to get it, get it? It isnt brining them in any $$ anymore. Trust me, former VB6 developer now on the streets talking here…

by: Ken Puls

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:05:12 +0000

Not sure what to even say there… They really don’t seem to get it, do they?

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by: Jon Peltier

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:48:08 +0000

Well, that was moronic. All those morons in Redmond pushing VSTO, never realizing that VBA is a pretty powerful development tool, without all the versioning and deployment issues.