Replace C# primitive types with FCL types in Visual Studio

January 01, 2011 | Visual Studio

A nice Visual Studio macro, for those who prefer not to use the C# language primitive types and use the corresponding FCL types instead.

Many people writing C# code prefer to use the FCL types:

As far as I know in Visual Studio there is no way to automate this process. It would be good if you could just select some code and just hide built-in type names. For that reason I wrote this Visual Studio macro.

Download here, right-click save as.