Visual Studio Hacks

Make Pasting into Visual Studio Easier #7

Chapter 2, Master the Editor

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HACK

Paste as Comment

Just as with strings, any text on the clipboard may be pasted as a block of

comments. I’ve found this very helpful in many cases. Having instant blocks

of comments makes development much easier because of the following

reasons:

• Business rule requirements may be pasted directly into the code for eas-

ier translation and to explain what is being done.

• Documentation from MSDN or other sources may be pasted in, avoid-

ing the need to switch between the code and a browser window.

• When upgrading code from another platform, the legacy code can be

pasted as a comment, making it easier to ensure the logic is the same.

To paste text as a comment, you simply need to copy text to your clipboard

and then choose Paste As

➝ Comment. For example, if you copied the fol-

lowing piece of text to your clipboard:

Call the test method to walk through this scenario and test every part.

and then pasted it into your document using Paste As ➝ Comment, you

would see the following comment added:

//Call the test method to walk through this scenario and test every part.

Paste as Region

When pasting as a region, the clipboard text will simply appear between

#region and #endregion tags with a region name of your choice. This feature

is often helpful when organizing code within your application or pasting

regions of code developed by ...