Can I record/play macros in Visual Studio 2012/2013/2015/2017/2019?

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laktak picture laktak · Aug 21, 2012 · Viewed 84.4k times · Source

Apparently macros were dropped from Visual Studio 2012.

Is there a plugin/extension/tool that will let me record & play keyboard macros (much like the record/play temporary macro in Visual Studio 2010)?

For example, I typically would use a macro when converting code from one language to another or to quickly generate properties from a text list, etc.

Answer

Xavier Poinas picture Xavier Poinas · Nov 13, 2012

You can try the Text Macros for Visual Studio 2012-2019 extension (I am the author). It basically does the same thing as the Notepad++ macros (text editing, no UI automation).

The code is open source (GitHub), so feel free to contribute improvements :-)

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