re: Creating and Using a Macro

emz — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:19:35 GMT

i will appreciate your help. you can e-mail me at frenchwitch_21@yahoo.com.sg

thanks

re: Creating and Using a Macro

emz — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:17:34 GMT

how can i create a MACRO in MS PROJECT 2010 that will automatically change the color of my gannt bar based on my start and finish dates? can you please help me on this?

re: Creating and Using a Macro

zainnab — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:19:28 GMT

That's awesome stuff Leo!

I hope folks keep the C++ stuff coming!

re: Creating and Using a Macro

Leo Davidson — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:43:05 GMT

Another cool thing you can do with macros is automatic flicking between related source files (e.g. .cpp and .h in C++), like some add-ins give you but without having to install an add-in (and with being able to customize the rules for your projects).

A macro I threw together to do that is in the answers here, and I just noticed a comment linking to an alternative macro which is a bit better than mine:

stackoverflow.com/.../in-visual-studio-2010-how-do-i-quickly-switch-from-a-h-file-to-the-correspondin

My other favourite use for macros is providing a toolbar button I can click to attach the debugger to the running process I often want to debug, without requiring any interaction beyond clicking the toolbar button.

VS macros are great! I think the challenge is remembering they exist. :) Until that question came up on SO I'd been missing the header-flick feature from the old WndTabs VS6 add-in but kept forgetting that I could easily make such a thing myself using a macro. The question came up and a few minutes later I had what I had wanted for ages (and what the question-asker wanted, too).

Now that I think of it, I should make macros to open the projects I commonly use so I don't get frustrated when they go off the Recent list. (I'm still using VS2008 so don't have VS2010's cool ability to "pin" certain projects.)