How to quickly surround text with HTML markup in VS 2008?

Question

I am working with Visual Studio 2008 editor. Is there a way to take a piece of text for example, highlight it and use shortcuts to quickly add markup?
For example, lets say I have a text, I went to: the store and I want to bold it, I have to type <b>the store</b>. Is there a quicker and easier way to do this?

Answer 1

With HTML Editor just press Ctrl+B...

With regular text editor VS does not provide something build-in, but you can add custom macros. Something like the following will do job for you.

Sub MakeSelectionBold()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "<b>" + DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text + "</b>"
End Sub

You can then assign it to the short-cut or add button to your toolbar.

Answer 2

Select text, Ctrl+X, type in your tags which will be autoclosed by vs, Ctrl+V