Who would have thought that you could build a complete game using Microsofts Excel & VBA scripts? I surely didn’t, but after spending just 1 day I discovered you could.
While the game obviously won’t be state of the art, it’s still impressive at just how flexible Excel actually is.
I’ve spent the last couple months really digging into Microsofts excel and I have to say it’s amazing. I recently found out it shipped with a version of Visual Basic and I began constructing Gui based spread sheet editors that really turned out nice.
However the more I use the visual basic scripts the more I realize that it’s just that. A script. It’s missing the power that the .Net based visual basic provides and really makes developing with it a pain. With that having been said though, I must give it to Microsoft; no Internet & no previous experiance with excel scripting & I was able to write a several hundred line script that manipulates my spreadsheets(removing/editing /injecting rows & data) simply by refering to their included documents.
It’s hard to find products now-a-days that include documentation that works great when offline.
