I wonder how much money has been lost hiring software developers to implement something that Excel was handling fine. (snark snark, sorry, of course there are a lot of good reasons to move away from excel, but many projects fail or money might have been better spent elsewhere given how expensive it is to contract out for something new)
In my experience in being hired years ago for this kind of work, there is a significant cost to going “web app” but I’d also sell custom excel plugins. Usually these businesses were hitting the limits of excel’s capabilities when humans need to be involved (complex and hard to adjust formulas, copy/paste mistakes, etc). Most businesses don’t realize they can just have a custom excel plugin, and sometimes that is all they need. Sometimes a web app or custom software is the better solution.
interesting... whats that look like? I know of VB script that can manipulate tables... does that let you do custom GUIs too? Any API where a webform could interact with excel?
I might like to get into this field, solving business problems without building a whole app sounds great.
Just install the SDK when installing Visual Studio. I don’t see why you can’t have an embedded web view as long as you love Internet Explorer… it’s easier to just create a native UI though and call an API.
