Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think they are deprecated, at least not for use in the Visual Studio IDE. They are not part of any document, and none get executed at Visual Studio Startup. There's really no practical alternative that I know of for making what amount to extensions to the editor. You may be thinking of something like Word documents, where macros can be embedded in the document itself, and which can execute when the document...

After installing Visual Studio Express at home out of curiosity, macro execution in Visual Studio 2005 Professional has been disabled. Uninstalling Visual Studio Express didn't help. Re-installing Visual Studio Professional didn't help.

Can't find a configuration setting for turning macro execution back on. Couldn't find likely suspect in system registry via Regedit.

Macro IDE loads, shows code, allows editing, shows...