Several years ago (Visual Studio 2010 era), Visual Studio included a very popular macro system built around the VBA Macro language.  Starting with VS2012, that functionality has been missing from Visual Studio leaving users to either do without or seek a 3rd party alternative.  To address this shortcoming, Microsoft’s Justin Clareburt has announced the return of macros to both Visual Studio 2013 and 2013 via a new extension called Macros for Visual Studio.