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		collyw on Jan 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The “No Code” Delusion Wasn't the main reason for VB's success the fact that it had a really good GUI builder and that a version was integrated into Excel?

Turing_Machine on Jan 13, 2020 [–]

Yes, the VB GUI builder was excellent (as compared to the language itself, which was meh, IMO).

Some people even used it to build GUIs for applications where the bulk of the code was written in another language.

VBA was in all the Office applications... Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Access...

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