VS Macro for deleting line numbers

When you copy code from internet and paste into Visual Studio, have you ever faced the trivial task to remove line numbers in the front of each line of code? I just wrote a macro to do this and I’d like to share it with you.

When we past code into Visual Studio, it often looks like this:

With this macro, we can remove line numbers very quickly. And the following is the script code. It will set the cursor to the start of current opened document, parse the first 3 characters of each line until the end of the document.

    Sub DeleteLineNumber()
        Dim objSel As TextSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection

        objSel.EndOfDocument()
        Dim endLine As Integer = objSel.ActivePoint.Line
        objSel.StartOfDocument()

        For line = 1 To endLine

            For bit = 1 To 3
                objSel.CharRight(True)
                Dim number As Integer
                If Integer.TryParse(objSel.Text, number) Then
                    objSel.DeleteLeft()
                End If
            Next

            objSel.LineDown()
            objSel.StartOfLine()
        Next

End Sub

To use this macro, you can

1. Launch Visual Studio



2. Press ALT+F8 to open Macro Explorer



3. Expand MyMacros node in Macro Explorer



4. Right click a module and select ‘New macro’ to create a new macro.



5. Past in the script.

And there are several ways to run a macro. They are described in How to: Run Macros. If you find any issue or has any comment, please feel free to let me know