Prepend & Append to Methods in batch selectively

A tool that finds all C# methods in a cs file and lets you put any code block to the beginning of the method and to the end of the methods. Simply you can prepend or append code blocks to any method that you select in a source code file. Since it detects method signatures with a regular expression that lays in a config file, practically you can use the tool for any programming language.

here is the project page;

http://code.google.com/p/prependappendtomethods/

Visual Studio Macros

Visual Studio Macros might make you code faster. Consider using macros for any thing that you do repeatedly;

For example, I have a static configuration class and want to add properties to this class with a macro;

Think that I have line like following in somewhere of my project;

var myValue = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["MyValue"];

And it is much more flexible if I do it like the following. This will provide me strongly typed access to configuration values, but I need to write one property for each configuration value, and that’s the point where the power of macros helps me:

var myValue = GdmWebConfiguration.MyValue;

public static class MyConfiguration

{

    public static string MyValue

    {

        get

        {

            return GetBool("MyValue");

        }

    }

}

here is the macro code block that I have;

Sub addPropToMyConfig()

    DTE.ItemOperations.OpenFile("MyConfiguraiton.cs")

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "        public static string " + ClipboardText

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "{"

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "get"

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "{"

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "return GetString(""" + ClipboardText + """);"

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Save()

End Sub

  I just double click on the string “MyValue” on the following line and make ctrl+c (copy to clipboard) and ctrl+alt+k (I have assigned this shortcut to my macro) and in MyConfiguration.cs the property I need gets created immediately.

var myValue = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["MyValue"];

And you can manually convert this line to MyConfiguraition.MyValue or you can use another macro ;) What I do is; I select ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["MyValue"]; (without copying; just select ) part and run this macro;

Sub GdmConfAdd()

        DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "MyConfiguration." + ClipboardText

End Sub

In this blog post you will see how ClipboardText variable implemented;

http://svenmaes.blogspot.com/2007/03/access-clipboard-from-visual-studio.html