Is there a future for Powerpoint VBA/VSTO?

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Published on 2009-11-11T14:26:08Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 14:12 UTC
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Does anyone know what the future holds for VBA/VSTO programming in Powerpoint? I've been working on a Office automation project and find it frustrating to work with Powerpoint in particular since it seems to be one level below VBA support found in Excel or Word. It feels like MS is trying to phase out support for VBA in PPT since they dropped macro recording in version 2007 and the object model lacks some key features support.

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