Tools / Customize / Macros

Now you can drag that Samples.VSEditor.CommentRegion right onto a toolbar.  Then, with the Customize dialog still open, right click on what you dragged onto the bar and select Default Style

Which will reduce it to a blank icon and then pick Chang Button Image to give it an icon.

Okay, now if you hightlight a block of text in code it will all be commented out with single quotes

But what of uncommenting ?

I wrote this macro which you can paste into the macro file that comes up when you open the Macros IDE ( you can drag that out of Tools in customize and onto a menu )

Sub UncommentBlock()
Dim current As String
current = DTE.Activedocument.Name
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.Find")
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.SwitchtoQuickReplace")
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.SelectAll")
DTE.Windows.Item(current).Activate()
DTE.Find.FindWhat = "'"
DTE.Find.ReplaceWith = ""
DTE.Find.Target = vsFindTarget.vsFindTargetCurrentDocumentSelection
DTE.Find.MatchCase = False
DTE.Find.MatchWholeWord = False
DTE.Find.MatchInHiddenText = True
DTE.Find.PatternSyntax = vsFindPatternSyntax.vsFindPatternSyntaxLiteral
DTE.Find.ResultsLocation = vsFindResultsLocation.vsFindResultsNone
DTE.Find.Action = vsFindAction.vsFindActionReplaceAll
If (DTE.Find.Execute() = vsFindResult.vsFindResultNotFound) Then
Throw New System.Exception("vsFindResultNotFound")
End If
DTE.Windows.Item("{CF2DDC32-8CAD-11D2-9302-005345000000}").Close()
End Sub

Just does a search and replace for ' inside a highlighted block

As soon as you save the macro file, you'll find that one the same place you found the CommentRegion() and you can put it on a toolbar the same way.

I'll put the tasklist thing in a separate message.

'And you can customize this even further by using YOUR initials instead of mine :-) 
Sub InsertCRH()
Dim textSelection As EnvDTE.TextSelection
textSelection = CType(DTE.Activedocument.Selection(), EnvDTE.TextSelection)
textSelection.Text = "' CRH: " & System.DateTime.Now.ToString() & CrLf _
& "' "
End Sub

See prior message for putting it on a toolbar and my message about snippets in General .NET section to see about the method and reasons to put your initials into a task list token

Charles

Very close and personal friends

Obviously no

Seemed like there should be something like that but darned if I could find them ( where shoulld I have been looking to find a list of such shortcuts? )

Oh well, learned a lot of cool stuff about macros along the way. 

Goes along with my life maxim that most of the valuable stuff I know I learned on my way to looking up something else

http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/04/24/save-time-use-keyboard-shortcuts-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx

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