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by contextfree 2933 days ago
Office client never used .net or C# to begin with
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cm2187 2933 days ago
Actually at one point they went very close to replace VBA with .net. It was called VSTA and meant to be a mini visual studio in office apps. I believe one of the office apps shipped with it in Office 2007, then they killed it.
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jkaptur 2933 days ago
VSTO, right?
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cm2187 2933 days ago
Nope. VSTO actually shipped and is used to create office addins. VSTA was an embedded IDE.
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