Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Region Directives

Visual Basic provides an efficient way of organizing your code within regions. A region is a collapsible area of the code editor that can contain any code and that takes advantage of the outlining feature of Visual Studio 2015. You define a region with #Region..#End Region directives. The following code snippet shows how to define a region:

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#Region "Private Members"    Private firstItem As String    Private secondItem As Integer#End Region

The #Region directive requires you to specify a descriptive caption. After you declare regions, you can then collapse them by clicking the - (minus) symbol on the left of the #Region directive. When it is collapsed, the region shows just the descriptive caption; ...