Converting Excel VBA Prototypes to Production Reports on the Web
I'd previously explored how to move Excel VBA prototypes into a production environment and did not find a satisfying path with Microsoft technologies. An idea for an approach that I may try as a proof of concept: 1. The Excel VBA Macro would need to be created with a specific set of coding rules and form controls. This is not intended to be a general purpose macro converter and is just being designed for some of the practices I have used over the years. It might serve as a basis for a broader converter down the road. There is still a lot of code written in Excel VBA and it's not a market that is attracting a lot of developer tool competition. It's worth looking into building a set of libraries in VBA similar to how the Google Apps Script (GAS) functions are organized for possible leverage there some day, but the intent is not to put one prototype product into another prototype so GAS is not the target of the code generation in step 3 below. A useful site related t...