10/31/2023 0 Comments Microsoft office excel 2018![]() ![]() ![]() If you intend to develop Excel add-ins which use native, platform features that are idiosyncratic to a specific version of Office (which I do NOT recommend), then use VSTO. If you intend to support other Office products such as Word or Outlook and are also not comfortable with using open source software, then choosing Add-in Express makes wise sense from a long-term maintenance, TCO perspective. Both have active user communities with 1000’s of developers each. Both are fully featured and have broad language support (unlike PyXLL), and both are much easier to use than the native Microsoft VSTO libraries. ![]() If you are looking to build an Excel product suite or family of add-ins, then I strongly encourage you to examine Add-in Express or Excel DNA. There are are several criteria when deciding which Excel add-in framework to use. In this series, I will be covering several advanced topics for extending Excel’s core capabilities. For heavy, data intensive commercial and academic users of Excel, there is a need to extends Excel’s features with custom calculations, new data sources, real-time refresh, and embedded GUI’s. Excel’s core capabilities include a flexible tabular data representation indexed by rows and columns, a catalog of built-in functions, a charting module, a data import module, and a rich programming model using VBA. According to Microsoft, there were 1.2 Billion users of Office desktop and 60 million users of Office 365 in the cloud as of March 2016 the latter amount more than doubled to 135 million active users in April 2018. Although the desktop may be slowly dying as phones, tablets, and other devices encroach, many businesses and consumers remain loyal fans and active users of Microsoft Office and Excel. ![]()
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