Using the Macros IDE

The Macros IDE is the integrated development environment that Visual Studio .NET uses to manage macro projects and write macro code.

To get to the Macros IDE, right-click on the TryCatchBlock macro in the Macro Explorer and select Edit. You should now be looking at something similar to Figure 16.6.

Figure 16.6. Editing a macro in the Macros IDE.

The Macros IDE is a separate IDE from Visual Studio .NET. However, it shares the same look and feel and has most of the same functionality. You can see that the MyMacros project is in the Solution Explorer, and RecordingModule is the default module name for the newly recorded macros. ...

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