Professional Development with Visio® 2000

The VBA Integrated Development Environment

When applications first began to expose methodologies for automating themselves, each had its own proprietary programming or “macro” language. Some were at least fairly robust; some were all but abysmal. A programmer had to learn each separate language to manipulate each application. Finally, Microsoft introduced a true viable VBA, Visual Basic for Applications. This brought about not only a common programming language, but, equally as important, a common programming interface. The Visual Basic for Applications Integrated Development Environment (VBA IDE) is a unified programming environment shared by every VBA-enabled application. This is important because once you have learned how to navigate about ...