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

TheSam is right, you can create collapsible chunks with the #pragma region and #pragma endregion statements.

Here is a sample:

int main(array args)
{


    Console::WriteLine(L"This");
    Console::WriteLine(L"is");
    Console::WriteLine(L"a");
    #pragma region
    Console::WriteLine(L"pragma");
    Console::WriteLine(L"region");
    #pragma endregion

    Console::WriteLine(L"test.");
    return 0;
}

In the above sample, everything between the samples can be collapsed.

You can also specify what text is displayed when it is collapsed. You can do that like this:

#pragma region The displayed text

That would obviously display "The displayed text" when the region was collapsed.