jet2jet / vb2net

The helper module for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) 7.0 and support DLL, providing access to .NET (formerly .NET Core) assemblies and classes.

vb2net

The helper module vb2net for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) 7.0 and support DLL, providing access to .NET (formerly .NET Core) assemblies and classes.

Requirements

• Visual Basic for Application 7.0 (included in Microsoft Office 2010 or higher)
  • (not tested) To use on Visual Basic 6.0, rewrite LongPtr to Long and remove all PtrSafe specifiers.
• .NET 6.0 or higher
  • The file vb2net.runtimeconfig.json specifies .NET version 6, so if you use version 7 (or higher), please modify vb2net.runtimeconfig.json.

Usage

1. Import vb2net.bas and ExitHandler.bas into your VB/VBA project
2. Download vb2net.zip from Releases and extract it (vb2net.dll and vb2net.runtimeconfig.json will be extracted)
3. Write your code with calling InitializeVb2net procedure

• After initialization, LoadAssembly and LoadAssemblyFromFile can be used.
• The sample is in vb2net.bas as Sample procedure.

Build vb2net.dll

Visual Studio 2022 is required to open the solution file vb2net/vb2net.sln.

Build vb2net/vb2net.csproj by dotnet build vb2net.csproj -p Release, or with Visual Studio or related build tools.