How do I collapse selected chunks of code in Visual Studio 2008?

Question

In Visual Studio 2008: Is there a way for me to customly collapse bits of code similar to like how I can automatically collapse chunks of comments?

Answer 1

Your piece of code needs to be a block surrounded by, as desired:

• braces
• #region and #endregion in C#
• #pragma region and #pragma endregion in C/C++

If you can't collapse statement blocks, you need to enable this feature :

Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> Formatting -> check everything in "outlining"

(In Visual Studio 2013 it's Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> View)

Then, reopen the source file to reload outlining.