[cm2187]

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.

[jkaptur]

VSTO, right?

[cm2187]

Nope. VSTO actually shipped and is used to create office addins. VSTA was an embedded IDE.