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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by contextfree on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @10:45AM (#17303543)
Office client never used .net or C# to begin with
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by cm2187 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:42PM (#17304711)
Actually at one point they went very close to replace VBA with .net. It was called VSTA and meant to be a mini visual studio in office apps. I believe one of the office apps shipped with it in Office 2007, then they killed it.
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by jkaptur on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:49PM (#17305419)
VSTO, right?
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by cm2187 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @02:12PM (#17305634)
Nope. VSTO actually shipped and is used to create office addins. VSTA was an embedded IDE.
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