In VFP I enjoyed the comment / uncomment right click menu option for blocks of code.  The closest I've been able to find in the VB 2008 IDE is a macro sample to comment and nothing to uncomment.  Soooo, this may be old hat to experienced VS users but if you're a newbie like me you may find this useful :

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 )

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 here's the comment / task list token macro :

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

Do you know about the keyboard shortcuts?



Highlight the code desired and then

Ctl +k+c to comment

Ctl +k+u to uncomment

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

gotta remember to google !!!

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6bb41456-9378-4746-b502-b4c5f7182203&DisplayLang=en

Hey, thanks for the links Charles.

Ahmen! And I learned a lot about marcos from your example