Introduction to Rubberduck VBA

Welcome

In this course I will run through the features of Rubberduck at a high level, showing you them in action and how you can change the settings for each of them.

Resources

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Topics Covered

In Lesson 1 we will learn about the Smart Indenter.

In Lesson 2 we will learn about the Online Indenter.

In Lesson 3 we will learn about the Refactorings.

In Lesson 4 we will learn about the Code Inspections.

In Lesson 5 we will learn about the Navigation Menu.

In Lesson 6 we will learn about the Auto Completion.

In Lesson 7 we will learn about the Annotations.

In Production: In Lesson 8 we will learn about the Unit Testing.

About

A free and open-source VBIDE add-in

Rubberduck is first and foremost a project aiming to bring the VBIDE functionality into this century, free of charge for all its users.

The project started in late 2014 as a C# port of a test runner tool written in VBA; it didn’t take too long to realize we could easily take the code in the editor, tokenize it, process it, analyze it, and then provide a wide array of developer tools to enhance the VBIDE experience.

Rubberduck is about learning, and paying forward: the project co-founder wrote their very first lines of C# for Rubberduck, and several contributors later did the same. Core contributors are always happy to guide new ducklings toward their first pull request!

Rubberduck is also about teaching: inspections will not just tell you that Option Explicit is missing, it will also explain why you want Option Explicit enabled everywhere. Many inspection ideas stemmed from questions frequently asked on Stack Overflow, and again explain what’s going on and why that might be a problem. If you’re new to VBA, Rubberduck inspections can teach you things about how VBA works, that many veterans took years to learn about!

The project’s blog presents new releases and upcoming features, and frequently proposes intermediate/advanced VBA topics revolving around object-oriented programming and clean code. A dedicated repository was created to host all VBA code examples from blog articles.

What's Next?

Rubberduck VBA Unit Testing is in design.

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