If you are new to developing macros in Visual Studio .NET, then you may be pleasantly surprised to find out two things: First, Visual Studio .NET includes a full IDE for editing macros that is (less surprisingly) very similar to the regular Visual Studio .NET IDE. Second, you don't have to write your macros in a scripting language; you get to work with the full Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET language. All three of the sample macros from this article are included in the download, but they are not installed into the main \VSMacros directory when you run the .msi. Instead, they are placed into your "My Documents" folder, under MSDN\Coding4FunIssue5, from where you can open them into Visual Studio .NET using the "Load Macro Project" menu command (Tools | Macros | Load Macro Project…).
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