Open an old .vsmacros file in VS2013

Question

I have a macros file I created in VS2010 that I only have saved in the .vsmacros format however after moving systems and in the process upgrading to VS2013 I have found I cannot open the file. All I need is to extract the code so I can create a .vsix from
the code, I do not need a macros extension to VS2013 they do not do what I need them to.
I need to extract the code from the .vsmacros file.

Answer 1

Hi BringBackMacros,
Thank you for posting in MSDN forum.
According to your description, if you just want to extract the code from the .vsmacros file and then apply the code to the .vsix file. Generally I know that we can save macros as either binary or text files. Binary is the default format for macros and uses
the .Vsmacros extension. And We can also save the macro as Unicode text (.txt).
So if possible, I suggest you can try to save the macro as Unicode text (.txt) in VS2010 and then you could open the file outside of Visual Studio directly and extract the code.
Reference:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/b4c73967(v=vs.100).aspx
In addition, since the macros is involved to the Extensions tool
Macros for Visual Studio 2013 ,
this extension tool is out of support range of this forum now.
If the above suggestion could not help you, I suggest you post this issue here:
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d3fbf133-e51b-41a2-b86f-9560a96ff62b, click “Q AND A”, you will get better support there.
Thanks for your understanding,
Best Regards,
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