Sad News for VBA Fans
written: October 15, 2009
Reading James Fee’s blog the other day I noticed this article about what is coming up in ArcGIS 9.4. One note that caught my eye was this:
ArcGIS 9.4 will be the last release of Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); we will no longer support VBA beyond the ArcGIS 9.4 release. Microsoft no longer promotes or updates VBA.
I know a lot of people out there love VBA (I am not one of them!), but I think this is a great step forward for ArcGIS. I am only assuming that they are going to go to python as their go-to scripting language, and I think this gives them much more power in the long run.
