Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Using the Macro Explorer

The Macro Explorer is the central tool within the IDE for managing macros. Macros are organized in projects and modules. For instance, the temporary macro that you just created shows up under the MyMacros project, under a module called RecordingModule, and it is called TemporaryMacro.

If you have selected to save the temporary macro, Visual Studio automatically places that TemporaryMacro node in edit mode with the name highlighted. This is your cue to type in a name for the macro. Pressing Enter commits the name change and causes the macro to be saved to disk. If you don’t change the name, it is not saved.

Using the Macro Explorer, you can rename or delete macros and run macros.

To execute a macro, just double-click ...