
your solution. A comparison of the Run and Build menus is
shown in Figure 13-11.
Language Differences between Visual Studio
and VBA
Before looking at the differences between the two develop-
ment environments, let’s first take a look at what has changed
in the Visual Basic language syntax. The current version of
Visual Basic, included with Visual Studio 2008, is version
9.0. VBA has been the language behind Microsoft Office for
over 12 years. Throughout this time the language and IDE
have not changed much. In fact, the language is still pretty
much identical to the way it was in 1997. The syntax and lan-
guage features have not been updated and are roughly ...