How to access a VSTA Macro

I just installed CorelDraw 18 and I noticed we now have VSTA Macros. The default one looks like this:

namespace VSTAGlobal
{
	public partial class Main
	{
		private void Startup()
		{
		}
 
		[CgsAddInMacro]
		public void Macro1()
		{
			MessageBox.Show("Macro1 - " + app.Name);
		}
	}
}

I would like to attach Macro1 to a button in the Corel workspace. To do that, I went to Tools> Options > Customization > Commands and chose Macros from the Drop Down menu. 
I thought this would let me choose Macro1 as it comes with CorelDraw 18 but it does not appear. How do I get this Macro to appear?

Myron over 7 years ago

Is it a gms file? And is it located in our user GMS folder file?
C:\Users\Myron\AppData\Roaming\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7\Draw\GMS
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BenHoffman over 7 years ago in reply to Myron

No, this would be a .NET Macro under VSTA not under VBA. This appears to be by design for how Corel Developed CorelDraw.
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Myron over 7 years ago in reply to BenHoffman

Not sure I understand then. I use lots of macros and added the icons to toolbars and such. I've assigned shortcuts to some too. They're all VBA though. Is there a benefit to VSTA type macros as opposed to VBA?
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Former Member over 7 years ago

You can create VSTA macro under same VBA docker, "Macro Maneger", however in Corel X8 you need Visual Studio 2013, or 2015 installed in your machine, for Corel X7 you need Visual Studio 2012, community edition is free.
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BenHoffman over 7 years ago in reply to Myron

There are several benefits:

1. Using the power of .NET programming language to write less code vs VBA which is more verbose.
2. My company currently has 5 developers and 5 know C# while only 1 knows VBA. So we would like to be able to leverage the knowledge of our team and use all of them for development without forcing them to learn another language
3. We have developed applications that run on servers that do work before and after our design department is done modifying the CDR files. All of that code is written in C# and uses the VGCore dll to access CorelDraw. Some code in these applications is duplicated inside of our Corel VBA scripts functionally speaking. However, we cannot reuse the code at this point since VBA and .NET code are not compatible.
4. I have found a way to add buttons via C#. It appears that menus are the issue at this point and Corel seems to have made it impossible to add menus via C# or access C# code via menu options.
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