Hey, there's a Macro in my Visual Studio! (Well, there will be if you install this extension...)

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An extension for Visual Studio 2013 that enables the use of macros in the IDE. The extension can record most of the features in Visual Studio including text editing operations.

Macros for Visual Studio 2013 is an extension for Visual Studio 2013 that enables the use of macros to automate repetitive tasks in the IDE. The extension can record most of the commands in Visual Studio including text editing operations.

Features

• Record and playback active document operations and Visual Studio IDE commands

• Playback multiple times

• Manage and persist macros with a Macro Explorer

• Assign keyboard bindings to any macro

• Macros recorded as JavaScript files that call VS DTE APIs

• Macro editing in Visual Studio with DTE IntelliSense

• Stop playback

• Sample macros

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Getting Started

After installing the extension, the Macro menu will appear under Tools > Macros. Under this menu, you'll find commands to record and playback a macro.

Current macro

The Current macro is a temporary macro that holds the last recorded macro. To persist it, use the Macro Explorer toolbar command Save Current Macro (or right-click the Current macro). Name the new macro and assign a shortcut if you wish. The new macro will then be persisted on your file system.

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Sample macros

Accessibility

• Decrease Font Size
• Increase Font Size
• Maximize Tool Windows

Documents

• Close Except Active: close all files in Visual Studio except active file
• Headify All: insert header into each C# file in the solution
• Remove and Sort All: remove unused usings and then sort, for each C# file in the solution

Editor

• Beginning of Function: moves cursor to the beginning of the current function
• Insert Date & Time
• Insert Date
• Insert Header: insert header into current C# file
• Insert Time
• Pane Center Screen
• Pane Top Screen
• Save Backup: saves active document as .bak file in current directory

Snippets (inserts code snippet)

• For Each Document: to iterate through each open document in Visual Studio
• For Each Window: to iterate through each open window in Visual Studio
• Properties: grab one of the properties in Tools >> Options
  For example, (show/hide status bar):
  var property = dte.Properties("Environment", "General"); property.Item("ShowStatusBar").Value = true
• Undo Context: encapsulate a single undo in macro script

Utilities

• Find Line: queries find tool for current line
• Toggle Line Numbers
• Toggle Word Wrap

Caveats

The following are not supported by the extension right now:

• Recording interaction with dialogs
• Recording of 'async' commands like Build may not execute as expected
• Execute a macro inside another macro

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If you present, this might be a huge time saver for you. If you do the same thing, over and over in VS, this might be a huge time saver for you. If you just like the idea of have Macro's in your VS, this...

Now, we just need a "store" or gallery and/or an easy means to share our Macro's and I think we'd be good. :)