Using the Macro IDE

By now you are familiar with IDEs in general, so we will just take a quick tour of the Macros IDE to point out some highlights.

Tip

You can change keyboard mappings in the Macros IDE by selecting Tools, Options, Keyboard. Selecting the Visual Basic 6 keyboard mapping scheme will make keyboard mappings in the Macros IDE consistent with VB6 mappings.

You can start the Macros IDE from the VS .NET IDE by choosing Tools, Macros, Macros IDE. The Macros IDE is project-centric; by default projects are stored in C:\ My Documents\ Visual Studio Projects\ VSMacros. Every time you create a macro project, a new subfolder is created using the project name. By default the macro project name is the same as the namespace for the project and ...

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