Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Working with Macro Projects

The Project Explorer tool window works on the same principles as the Solution Explorer; it presents a tree view of your work items. In the case of macros, the tree nodes are organized like this: project -> module. Individual macros are displayed in the code editor window (note that this is essentially the same as the Macro Explorer view, with the exception that the Macro Explorer’s tree shows each individual macro by name).

In our case, we recorded a temporary macro, and it shows up under the MyMacros project, in the module named RecordingModule. If you look back at Figure 14.3, you see a portion of the code that was created when the macro was recorded; it is all contained in a Visual Basic sub called TemporaryMacro() ...