COMPARISON of VB/VB.NET vs. VBA   Visual Basic: Introduced in 1991 Creates a true compiled application (uses the same compiler as C) – thus apps run at extremely fast speed Designed for building robust mission-critical applications Most popular software – world’s about 70% Windows applications are developed with it. Created the basis for VBA & VBscript in 1995 Buy from resellers openly Very powerful and extendible No run time fees owed to Microsoft for distribution. VBA: Introduced in 1995 It is interpreted at runtime and thus runs very slow. Designed primarily for non-critical office grade environment applications. It is a crippled sub set of the VB The VBA engine runs as a separate shell and thus become a 3rd party application running within the vendor’s software application. The 3rd party vendor pays a very high price to Microsoft to allow them to embed VBA engine into their products. Special functions are added to VBA engine from Microsoft by the 3rd party vendor to make it proprietary for that product. Several limitations, however it is a giant step ahead of the proprietary scripting languages of HMI products.     For More Information on any of our products please contact us