VBA to ?

**FlyFree** · 09-09-2014, 11:29 AM

Any programmers on here?

I have an application I developed on Excel using VBA and want to convert it to something compilable. Any ideas what is the easiest language to convert to from vba?

The Excel UI I don't want to keep as an excel s/s, I'll set up a custom UI for it. I know a bit of C. VB seems maybe the easiest? How secure is it, code-wise. Can VB / C be decompiled?

Not a programmer, obviously, but been messing around with programming off and on since the steam engine.

**Butterfly** · 10-09-2014, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by FlyFree

Not a programmer, obviously,

indeed, your questions seems a bit hopeless.

You will need to re-develop everything, from UI to actual logic code, with possible database backend in the mix. Again, depends what you are trying to achieve as a result.

Why change from your current Excel UI with VBA ? might be good enough for what you are trying to do, so why change ?

otherwise you will need to learn OOP like C#, Java etc... and if you have no formal concept of programming, it's going to be very hard to learn and to accomplish anything.

But you could still learn,

**Necron99** · 10-09-2014, 04:19 PM

A database and a web/intranet page would be easier than learning an oop

**Butterfly** · 10-09-2014, 04:22 PM

sure, could develop some kind of webapp, still JavaScript frameworks out there are also mostly OOP frameworks

again depends on what he is trying to accomplish, probably not worth it

**FlyFree** · 10-09-2014, 05:27 PM

"indeed, your questions seems a bit hopeless."
Buttplug, trying to up your ego by running others down is an exercise in futility. Your ego will still know you suck.

Did some coding in C. Before +

Learning a language has always been easy. Know some of a few. Old ones.

Converting from vba to C(x), VB, shouldn't be a problem. Even Java or something. Databases I know next to fuckall about. I know what they do, but structure and calls are foggy, to put it mildly.

Been toying with the idea of a web based app to handle the backend and just downloading a UI onto user's pc. Not sure how secure that would be.

I need to do trial versions that have a time limit. Copy protection I assume is still a futile exercise.

It's not a very big app really, but valuable.

I think wordpress creates databases. Maybe that will be useful. These days its all plug n play modules. Great for Buttplug.

**Topper** · 10-09-2014, 05:49 PM

Former programmer here....

Converting vba to vb shouldn't be a problem, depending on what you want the program to do...I did it yonks ago for several quick things I did in Excel that I had to change to do the same thing from a file.

**Butterfly** · 10-09-2014, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by CSFFan

Former programmer here....

Converting vba to vb shouldn't be a problem, depending on what you want the program to do...I did it yonks ago for several quick things I did in Excel that I had to change to do the same thing from a file.

VBA and VB might share some syntax and programming concept but programming in VB is radically different,

VBA is there for a reason, those with no programming skills can use Access or Excel or even Word to develop simple programming macros and scripts

**FlyFree** · 10-09-2014, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by CSFFan

Former programmer here....

Converting vba to vb shouldn't be a problem, depending on what you want the program to do...I did it yonks ago for several quick things I did in Excel that I had to change to do the same thing from a file.

My main issue is decompilability to get at the source. Wanna protect the source and thus the method.

**Topper** · 11-09-2014, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by FlyFree

Wanna protect the source and thus the method.

As far as I know, you can't decompile VB.

**FlyFree** · 12-09-2014, 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by CSFFan

Originally Posted by FlyFree

Wanna protect the source and thus the method.

As far as I know, you can't decompile VB.

I'll check that out thx.

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