In another significant boost to development productivity, RFgen includes a fully functional version of Visual Basic for Applications. Through the use of VBA.NET or VBA classic scripting, and the RFgen Mobile Framework's built-in features, even beginning programmers can easily create fairly complicated, mobile and wireless enabled data collection applications. To facilitate this development process, we have also enhanced the standard VBA environment to include a number of new VBA "language extensions". These extensions relate specifically to the mobile and wireless application environments and are targeted to simplify such tasks as complex data validation or queries, transaction updates, label printing, data transfer / synchronization, and much more.

Why use VBA.NET or VBA classic scripting in RFgen projects? Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) scripts allow technical personnel to provide additional functionality to RFgen data collection forms by responding to events using Visual Basic programming statements (scripts). VBA scripts allow the developer to enhance the capabilities offered by standard RFgen forms and other objects. In fact, developers may take total control over the client device by responding to field/system events, handling all data display functions, and even sending direct commands through the various RFgen data connections. It is this built-in support for VBA that lets developers "step outside of the box".