Keyboard Shortcut Summary Macro

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I finally had time to improve my Visual Studio .NET keyboard shortcut summary macro. Instead of writing HTML to the console*, it now creates a HTML file in your user documents folder, and navigates the IDE to the created file:

This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/10/keyboard-shortcut-summary-macro.html
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I’m new at vb.net running vs 2005 and have 2 (stupid) questions.

  1. I don’t see Macros…IDE on my Tools menu.
  2. How do I “import EnvDTE”? I’m familiar with the Imports statement but unsure how to do this instruction.

Thanks for any help!

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Very interesting, but my visual studio, unfortunately, does not accept the macro - seems like DataRow, DataTable, DataView, DataRowView etc does not exist… any idea why ?

This is indeed a neat trick, if it worked :slight_smile:

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  1. Add a reference to the System.Data namespace*; make sure it builds with no errors
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Sorry, must have been blind. Seems like everything works :slight_smile:
Thanks.
(Sorry for posting twice, don’t know why that happened)

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For VS 2005, in addition to a reference* to System.Data, I also had to change a line in the ViewToHtmlTable() method:

'groupName = ToString(drv.Item(groupColumnName))
groupName = drv.Item(groupColumnName).ToString()

  • for about 1/2 hour, I stared at the Imports System.Data statement and said to myself, “I have a reference to System.Data.”

Thanks very much for the great macro!

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Didn’t work for me. I tried everyones suggestions and the macro builds fine, just doesn’t create the file. I’m running XP 64bit with VS.NET 2005

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Works on Visual Studio 2008TS

I only needed to add references to System.Data.dll and System.XML.dll and their corresponding “Imports” and way to go.

really nice work :slight_smile:

cheers

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Jeff, this is a great tool. Thanks for sharing it.

++Alan

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I’ve posted the cheat sheet result for the Visual Studio 2008 default C# keyboard shortcuts to save people the trouble of getting the macro running. It’s here:

http://nerdfortress.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/visual-studio-2008-cheat-sheet/

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This works in VS2008. Thanks!