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I recently had the need/desire to dynamically generate some code in .NET.  It's not something you tend to do a lot unless you are creating a compiler, so it was an interesting experience.  In the end it didn't solve my problem, but it was educational none-the-less. First I'll describe the scenario of the problem I was trying to solve ...

Here's another useful VS macro.  When I write code there are always weird edge cases that I think of while so I like to liberally sprinkle // TODO: comments around.  When you do this though you should always put in your alias and the date.  That way someone who comes across your comment knows who to ask for further details, or ...

One of the most useful macros I ever wrote in VS was but a single line.  All it does is insert a GUID at the current selection point.  It was so useful I wrote it twice; once to insert lowercase and once to insert uppercase GUIDs.  Here it is:Imports System Imports EnvDTE Imports EnvDTE80 Imports System.Diagnostics Public ...