v1.8.0

The vbamc tool will work on .NET 6, 7 and 8 runtimes.

v1.7.0

This release add new vbamc tool argument to set extended properties in the compiled documents.

Usage

Call vbamc with the argument --property with key value pair PropertyName=Value:

vbamc -m Module.vba -c Class.vba --property Generator=VbaCompiler

This will create extended property named Generator with value VbaCompiler in the compiled Office document.

v1.6.0

This release changes the VbaCompiler to compile the vbaProject.bin and the macro file to output streams instead of files.

Features

• The VbaCompiler.CompileVbaProject(Stream) will save the vbaProject.bin content to the stream
• The vbaCompiler.Compile*MacroFile() methods will accept streams

Breaking change

• VbaCompiler no longer supports compiling files directly to file path

vbamc tool

• The vbamc tool will generate macro file in correct format based on the file extension

v1.5.1

Updates library dependencies to latest versions.

Runtime dependencies for VbaCompiler library:

• DocumentFormat.OpenXml v2.20.0
• OpenMcdf v2.3.0

Runtime dependencies for vbamc tool:

• McMaster.Extensions.CommandLineUtils v4.1.0

v1.5.0

This is a release add new API to VbaCompiler to add extended properties to the macro file.

New features

• Add extended properties to the macro file using VbaCompiler.ExtendedProperties property

Note
Extended properties are not exposed to the command line vbamc tool.

v1.4.3

This is a release with small quality of life changes from @m-kovac.

You can now the the Version property of the add-in file and vbamc compiler and the library can be used in multithreaded scenarios as it won't use write-locks when reading image files for the Ribbon.

New features

• You can set the package version value by the ProjectVersion argument #7

Improvements

• vbamc will not lock image files for writing when generating the addin file #9
• vbamc compiler will not produce the dir.bin files which was used to debug the compiler during development #8

v1.4.2

This release does not have any changes in command line vbamc tool.

Added

• To support compilation of custom addins, the VbaCompiler library allows the developer to set base directory to Ribbon customization files (the customUI folder). #6
• The VbaCompiler library was updated to allows compiling PowerPoint add-in files on Windows platform and replacing the user profile path ~/ with the macOS directory separator. #5

Release notes for v1.4.0

Change the user profile path which will replace the ~/ expression in source code using the --user-profile-path parameter.

Warning Reverted change to the --file parameter from v1.3.0 release.

Parameter --file requires filename with extension now. This behavior is the same as for v1.2.0 release.

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The vbamc compiler is now listed on NuGet https://www.nuget.org/packages/vbamc

Install it using command

dotnet tool install --global vbamc --version 1.4.1

vbamc v1.4.1

This release does not have any changes in command line vbamc tool.

Added

• The VbaCompiler library was updated to allows compiling PowerPoint add-in files on Windows platform and replacing the user profile path ~/ with the macOS directory separator. #5

Release notes for v1.4.0

Change the user profile path which will replace the ~/ expression in source code using the --user-profile-path parameter.

Warning Reverted change to the --file parameter from v1.3.0 release.

Parameter --file requires filename with extension now. This behavior is the same as for v1.2.0 release.

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The vbamc compiler is now listed on NuGet https://www.nuget.org/packages/vbamc

Install it using command

dotnet tool install --global vbamc --version 1.4.1

vbamc v1.4.0

Change the user profile path which will replace the ~/ expression in source code using the --user-profile-path parameter.

Warning Reverted change to the --file parameter from v1.3.0 release.

Parameter --file requires filename with extension now. This behavior is the same as for v1.2.0 release.

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The vbamc compiler is now listed on NuGet https://www.nuget.org/packages/vbamc

Install it using command

dotnet tool install --global vbamc --version 1.4.0

vbamc v1.3.0

Change the user profile path which will replace the ~/ expression in source code using the --user-profile-path parameter.

Warning This release changes the behavior of the --file parameter.

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The vbamc compiler is now listed on NuGet https://www.nuget.org/packages/vbamc

Install it using command

dotnet tool install --global vbamc --version 1.3.0