write VS2005 Macros in C#

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Robert Ludig - 12 Oct 2006 11:00 GMT

Is there a way to write Macros for Visual Studio 2005 in using C#
instead of visual basic? The Macro IDE only seem to support Visual
Basic. Is that correct?

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Peter Macej - 12 Oct 2006 11:48 GMT

You cannot write VS 2005 macros in C#. You need to use VB .NET.

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Robert Ludig - 12 Oct 2006 12:10 GMT

Bummer !

Why is that so? I thought .NET languages is are interchangeable since
they all end up in IL anyway?

Is the whole DTE API acessible via COM? If so I could write "Macros"
using the COM interfaces and C# .. (?)

Peter Macej schrieb:

> You cannot write VS 2005 macros in C#. You need to use VB .NET.
>
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> VSdocman - Commenter and generator of class documentation for C#, VB
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Peter Macej - 12 Oct 2006 13:45 GMT

> Is the whole DTE API acessible via COM? If so I could write "Macros"
> using the COM interfaces and C# .. (?)

You can access DTE from add-in as well. Add-ins are even more powerful
than macros and they can be written in C#. See Carlos's page about all
that stuff at http://mztools.com/resources_vsnet_addins.htm

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Dustin Campbell - 12 Oct 2006 16:09 GMT

I'm pretty certain that VS2005 still uses the older VBA technology for macros.
So, it really isn't VB .NET but VBA.

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Dustin Campbell
Developer Express Inc.

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Peter Macej - 13 Oct 2006 08:19 GMT

> I'm pretty certain that VS2005 still uses the older VBA technology for macros.
> So, it really isn't VB .NET but VBA.

I don't agree that it isn't VB .NET. You can use complete VB .NET
syntax, use all .NET framework classes, create forms. There's almost no
limitation. It only doesn't create compiled assembly.
VS 2005 macros are written in pure VB .NET language.

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Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP] - 13 Oct 2006 08:46 GMT

Hi Dustin,

The language for macros definitely is not VBA, it's VB.NET.

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> I'm pretty certain that VS2005 still uses the older VBA technology for
> macros. So, it really isn't VB .NET but VBA.
>
> Best Regards,
> Dustin Campbell
> Developer Express Inc.

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Dustin Campbell - 13 Oct 2006 15:42 GMT

>> I'm pretty certain that VS2005 still uses the older VBA technology
>> for macros. So, it really isn't VB .NET but VBA.

Thanks for the correction guys -- much appreciated. I actually assumed that
they were still using VBA since C# wasn't a supported macro language. I wonder
why that's the case.

Best Regards,
Dustin Campbell
Developer Express Inc

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