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Asked: 2026-06-11T05:22:06+00:00

As we all know by now, Microsoft (in their infinite wisdom…) have dropped macro

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As we all know by now, Microsoft (in their infinite “wisdom”…) have dropped macro support from Visual Studio 2012.

Unfortunately for me, I make extensive use of simple macros in Visual Studio 2010. These macros are very simple indeed; for example, doing things like inserting a GUID at the current caret location.

I would like to have the same functionality of all of these simple macros in VS2012, but for now I’d settle for one of my most-used ones: My “InsertTodo()” macro. All this does is to insert my initials and the current date at the current caret location, like so:

// TODO(MRW:2012-09-11):

It leaves the caret at the end of the inserted text, ready for me to type my TODO comment.
I have assigned this to the Alt+T key, for easy use.

The macro code in VS2010 is extremely basic (no pun intended ;):

Sub InsertTodo()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = String.Format("// TODO(MRW:{0}): ", DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"))
End Sub

My question is simple: How do I replicate this in Visual Studio 2012?

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