Visual Studio C# statement collapsing

Question

When editing really long code blocks (which should definitely be refactored anyway, but that\'s beyond the scope of this question), I often long for the ability to collapse

Answer 1

Starting with Visual Studio 2017, statement collapsing is built-in.

There are several extensions that perform this task for pre-2017 versions of VS, starting with VS 2010 version:

• C# outline
• C# outline 2012 (@MSDN)
• C# outline 2013 (@MSDN)
• C# outline 2015 (@MSDN)
• Visual Basic and C# Outliner

The last extension supports only VS 2015 and VS 2017, but it's the most powerful one.
It supports syntax coloring inside collapsed blocks, it is more fault-tolerant and optimized.

If the extension doesn't seem to install after you used a browser to download it, try using the built-in Visual Studio extension manager.