53.8. Summary
In the third and last chapter of this part of the book you read about macros as the easiest and fastest way to automate some tasks in the Visual Studio IDE.
You explored briefly all the major topics concerning macros and got started with them. First you read about the anatomy of macros and their structure, then learned about Macro Explorer and the Macros IDE as two common and important Visual Studio elements and tools that aid you with macros.
After this basic information, you read about recording macros with the Visual Studio macro recorder and developing macros with programming code.
Obviously you need to know how to run a macro and deploy it to other machines, so the final sections of this chapter were dedicated to these topics.
Visual Studio automation and extensibility is a wider topic than what you saw in this part of the book, but it covered all the major topics that you need to get started. Visual Studio Extensibility is a major category of its own in the .NET community, and you may be interested in following this topic in more detail.
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