Is the MS Office written in VB?

As I understand it, the early version of office were written in vb 'cause Ms could produce a prototype quickly to see how it'd look and add extra ideas into it, when they were happy with it, they re-created it in VC++ or their equivalent of it, then marketed / sold it.

Dunno the truth in that but I've read that a couple of times from mags now.

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Originally posted by alex_read
As I understand it, the early version of office were written in vb 'cause Ms could produce a prototype quickly to see how it'd look and add extra ideas into it, when they were happy with it, they re-created it in VC++ or their equivalent of it, then marketed / sold it.

Dunno the truth in that but I've read that a couple of times from mags now.

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VB doesn't have the functionality though to carry out the function used in some of the offices applications though.:confused:

Maybe they only mapped out some of the design & code then, dunno - what are you thinking of - what functionality?

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Originally posted by alex_read
Maybe they only mapped out some of the design & code then, dunno - what are you thinking of - what functionality?

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VB wouldn't be able to create the DLLS that office uses?

Office is office funtionality wrapped around COM.
Now tell me how that couldn't be VB ;)

I think you'll find that Visual Basic was written in a Microsoft Office or several offices on the Microsoft campus..

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Originally posted by MerrionComputin
I think you'll find that Visual Basic was written in a Microsoft Office or several offices on the Microsoft campus..

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the rolleyes emoticon just isn't.... powerful enough to combat that statement.

I wonder where the "Ban his arse" button is...

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Originally posted by parksie
I wonder where the "Ban his arse" button is...

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Mod Panel ;)

Humppf - If you run any Microsoft Office application through the dependency walker program (see project requests) you will see that the VB runtimes are not listed and since the "VB program without runtimes" project (see project requests) is vapourware I think you can reasonably conclude that Microsoft Office was not written in Visual Basic.