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Poor Man's Bracket Matching Macro

Powertoys — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:02:00 GMT

David sent me mail about his "Poor Man's Bracket Matching Macro". (Click link for Macro Code)

From his site:

"I usually assign it to CTRL + 9 key combination. Now, go to your source and put caret before or after any bracket. Press CTRL + 9. Matching bracket should appear bold for a second or two, just as it does when you first write it. As with all macros it will be rather slow when you run it for the first time, so don't dump it right away.

And it also helps if you set brace matching color to something bright, like red. Go to Tools / Options / Environment / Font and Color / Display Items: Brace Matching and set it's foreground color."

Enjoy! Josh

NUnit & VS Integration Macro (Via Rido)

Powertoys — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:18:00 GMT

Rido sent me mail about this macro this morning.

"I've written a macro that sets the project configuration options to a NUnit Test project, so you can debug without "Attach to a process". I think you could add it to your Macro list: "

Check it out: http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2004/09/10/NUnitVSMacro.aspx

Simple Macro for Formatting Code to HTML from within VS 2003

Powertoys — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 23:43:00 GMT

Via .Avery: "Code -> HTML in VS.NET - Cory comes up with a cool macro to send your code to word then back to your clipboard. Quick HTML formatting for your code."

It's been a while since we've posted an interesting Macro to the Powertoys blog. This one is useful for those of you looking to put code into your blog posts. For more information on using macro code in VS.Net check out this article.

Check it out: http://addressof.com/blog/archive/2004/10/06/966.aspx

Good Times! Josh

Toggle Design and Source Windows Macro

Powertoys — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 07:09:00 GMT

This one comes from Austin out of our mailbag. Thanks - Josh

I got tired of using the F7, Shift-F7 key shortcuts for toggling the Design and Source code windows. So I wrote this little macro.

It works a little differently for ASP.NET files. When toggling to the Design window the macro will open either in Design or HTML mode depending on the users setting. Maybe someone else will find this macro usefull.

Imports EnvDTE

Imports System.Diagnostics

Imports System.ComponentModel.Design

Public Module ToggleWindows

Sub ToggleDesignAndCodeWindows()

If (((TypeOf DTE.ActiveWindow.Object Is IDesignerHost) OrElse (TypeOf DTE.ActiveWindow.Object Is HTMLWindow)) AndAlso (DTE.Commands.Item("View.ViewCode").IsAvailable)) Then

DTE.ExecuteCommand("View.ViewCode")

Else

Dim projItem As ProjectItem

Dim activeDocFullName As String = DTE.ActiveDocument.FullName

Dim formFullName As String = activeDocFullName.Substring(0, activeDocFullName.LastIndexOf("."))

projItem = DTE.Solution.FindProjectItem(formFullName)

If (Not projItem Is Nothing) Then

Try

projItem.Open(Constants.vsViewKindPrimary).Activate()

Catch e As System.NullReferenceException

' Do nothing. Needed for asmx and ascx pages.

End Try

Else

If DTE.Commands.Item("View.ViewDesigner").IsAvailable Then

DTE.ExecuteCommand("View.ViewDesigner")

Else

Beep()

End If

End Sub

End Module

Check out these instructions for more information on using macros in the ide.

Send F1 Searches Online to Google with this Macro

Powertoys — Sun, 27 Jun 2004 06:06:00 GMT

Marty wrote a Macro for VS that performs a google search on the current F1 keyword in the IDE. Check it out for yourself here: http://www.little-garins.com/Blogs/marty/archive/2004/06/24/171.aspx

This is pretty cool, but what impressed me was the quick turnaround of ideas into reality amongst developer bloggers.

Last Wednesday I wrote this in my blog: “F1 is still cool, but I wonder how useful an “Alt+F1” to google search would be. Maybe that will be my next project. “

On Thursday I found this trackback from Marty: “I was struck by Josh's comments so I built one and I am sharing it with you. Hopefully you will find it helpful as well.”

Stefano says: “A great idea...Thanks for the tip.“

Roland, in addition to also providing a cool tweak to scope the results to MSDN, says it's “really cool“.

Enjoy - Josh

Accessibility Macros for Visual Studio .NET 2003

Powertoys — Sat, 15 May 2004 01:25:00 GMT

As I demo'ed at CSUN, here are the Accessibility Macros for Visual Studio .NET 2003. These macros allow users to tweak the Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE by easily increasing and decreasing font size, toggling colors in the editor to pure black on white (or vice versa), and maximizing tool windows.

I've created a GotDotNet workspace for the macros in hopes that people would add their own macros for better tweaking the IDE, leave ideas for future macros, and of course to track the number of downloads.

Even if you don't use Accessibility Features, definitely check out the Increase and DecreaseTextEditorFontSize macros. These simple macros will allow you to painlessly increase and decrease the text editor font size by assigning a keyboard shortcut to each macro. Please see the readme for more information on how to bind macros to keyboard shortcuts.

Thanks!
-sara

Add #Region Macro

Powertoys — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:39:00 GMT

Another macro from Devhawk allows you to quickly add your own regions to code.

From his site: http://www.devhawk.net/art_addregion.aspx

In order to make it easier to create regions in my code, I wrote this macro. It asks the developer for a region name, then inserts #region and #endregion statements before and after the currently selected text. So if I want to create a region around four methods, I just select them, run the macro, choose a name and it's done.

Sub AddRegion()

    Dim CloseUndoContext As Boolean = False



    If DTE.UndoContext.IsOpen = False Then

        CloseUndoContext = True

        DTE.UndoContext.Open("DevHawkAddRegionMacro", False)

    End If



    Try

        Dim name As String = InputBox("Enter the region name")



        If (name.Trim().Length = 0) Then Exit Sub



        Dim sel As TextSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection



        Dim lTop = sel.TopPoint.Line

        Dim lBot = IIf(sel.BottomPoint.AtStartOfLine, sel.BottomPoint.Line - 1, sel.BottomPoint.Line)



        sel.MoveToLineAndOffset(lBot, 1)

        sel.EndOfLine()

        sel.NewLine()



        If DTE.ActiveDocument.Language = "CSharp" Then

            sel.Text = "#endregion"

        ElseIf DTE.ActiveDocument.Language = "Basic" Then

            sel.Text = "#End Region"

        Else

            Throw New System.Exception("Invalid Language: " + DTE.ActiveDocument.Language)

        End If



        sel.MoveToLineAndOffset(lTop, 1)

        sel.StartOfLine()



        If DTE.ActiveDocument.Language = "CSharp" Then

            sel.Text = "#region " + name.Trim()

        ElseIf DTE.ActiveDocument.Language = "Basic" Then

            sel.Text = "#Region """ + name.Trim() + """"

        Else

            Throw New System.Exception("Invalid Language: " + DTE.ActiveDocument.Language)

        End If



        sel.NewLine()

    Finally

        If CloseUndoContext Then DTE.UndoContext.Close()

    End Try

End Sub

Here is some more information on using macros in the IDE.

Set IDE to Demo Mode Fonts

Powertoys — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:29:00 GMT

Via Devhawk comes a macro to set the editor fonts to and from a preset demo mode size and font combo.

Private Sub SetEditorFonts(ByVal size As Integer, ByVal family As String, ByVal bold As Boolean)
    Dim Props As Properties
    Props = DTE.Properties("FontsAndColors", "TextEditor")
    Props.Item("FontSize").Value = size 
    Props.Item("FontFamily").Value = family
 
    Dim clritems As EnvDTE.FontsAndColorsItems = Props.Item("FontsAndColorsItems").Object
    clritems.Item("Plain Text").Bold = bold
End Sub
 
Sub DemoConfig()
    SetEditorFonts(18, "Lucida Console", True)
End Sub
 
Sub NormalConfig()
    SetEditorFonts(10, "Courier New", True)
End Sub
 
Check out these instructions for more information on using macros in the ide.