Timeline for Are detailed Excel VBA questions best posed here or on Stack Overflow?
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:39 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 30, 2015 at 13:03 | answer | added | Raystafarian | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Jan 29, 2015 at 22:03 | comment | added | Excellll | possible duplicate of Inconsistent Mod response to migrating Excel questions between Stack OverFlow & Super User | |
| Jan 29, 2015 at 20:23 | answer | added | Chrismas007 | timeline score: -2 | |
| Sep 3, 2013 at 22:44 | comment | added | Brad | Also, contrast the two wiki pages stackoverflow.com/tags/vba/info superuser.com/tags/vba/info for VBA. I subscribe tot he VBA tag on SO but rarely come to SU to look for VBA questions. | |
| Sep 2, 2013 at 1:57 | comment | added | terdon | Personally, I would have probably flagged that question for migration to SO. "How can I do XYZ in Excel?" is an SU question but "Why are TypeOf operations failing?" is more SO. In fact, pure programming questions are explicitly off topic here and are more often closed or migrated than not. | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 20:27 | comment | added | nixda | @PieterGeerkens From my experience I can say, that SO is the better site for VBA questions. SU has 422 questions tagged with VBA while SO has 9976 tagged with Excel-VBA. Only trivial VBA questions should go to superuser. | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 11:42 | comment | added | Ramhound |
@PieterGeerkens - Its because VBA is a programming language but calls itself anything except a programming language. It was created so blue collar people could perform an advanced computing task without having go through the extensive task of learning a programming language like C. I use blue collar to describe anyone who doesn't know a secondary programming language :-)
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| Aug 29, 2013 at 5:04 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | @nhinkle: I guess that means no clear consensus. It is a shame that the VBA community is fragmented between the two sites. | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 3:45 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | PieterGeerkens on one hand, by raw numbers, there are probably more people on SO who could give a really great answer to a VBA question. But with the volume SO gets, it might be more likely that somebody like @somequixotic who can give a really great answer would actually see your question on SU. So, YMMV basically. | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 2:58 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | @somequixotic: Thank you. This meta question really is more about next time, as I probably won't cross-post beyond this entry. SO does seem to be much more C# and SQL than VBA, which is why I ask the question. If you have any thoughts or observations on my conundrum, I welcome receiving them. | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 2:40 | comment | added | allquixotic | Well, for what it's worth, I'm a very advanced VBA programmer (I also know other languages, but VBA is one I've been forced into mastering), and I mainly trawl SU, but I hardly ever do anything on SO except ask questions, so if that says anything about the target audience for your question....... personally I'd post it on SU. | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 1:31 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | @nhinkle: It's about as serious as any VBA programming I expect. Trying to leverage the blunt O-O tools available in VBA is even harder when they are unreliable. | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 1:27 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | It could work on either, but if you're doing serious "programming" in VBA you're likely to get a better response on SO. | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 1:25 | history | asked | Pieter Geerkens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |