Manual Outlining support

I usually don’t post to forums, but after suffering the past year with VB 2005’s lack of Manual Outlining support I simply want an answer from the VS VB development decision makers who removed that functionality and challenge them to come on this forum and explain their actions.

I invite anyone else who feels as I, to let your voice be heard by replying to this thread asking them to do the same.

As a VB version 1 through VB 2005 developer I was heartened back in the VB6 days when MS announced the enhanced code editing features that would be available in the Visual Studio .net IDE and the promise of a IDE that functioned the SAME no matter what language you where using. MS shouted this promise over and over and over. Yet here we are nearly a decade later and the promise has still not been fulfilled on something as simple as code editing.

Please tell me MS why it is so much more difficult to develop an IDE that can collapse the True portion of a IF THEN ELSE block than a whole function or at the very least why I can’t define a region anywhere I darn well please. Your clients and partners who are out their everyday espousing your products deserve an explanation.

[1874 byte] By [AllenHall] at [2007-12-28]
# 1

Hi. You can define regions:

#Region "region name"

#End Region

JamesA.Gayhart at 2007-9-4 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Basic,Visual Basic IDE...
# 2

Of course I can...

...but try it inside a true block of an If..then..else!

AllenHall at 2007-9-4 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Basic,Visual Basic IDE...
# 3

I very much agree.

I jumped online, figuring there must be a mistake when I got the error:

"'#Region' and '#End Region' statements are not valid within method bodies. "

Is there any way to add outlining within bodies?

I'm looking for ways to make code more readable and it just seem like such and easy way to do it?

I know that #region #endregion can be used outside of method bodies, but what about ways to colapse a juicy for loop or case select statement?

Am I missing something?

Thanks

bigboyc at 2007-9-4 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Basic,Visual Basic IDE...
# 4
I'm starting to look into building this myseld using the VS SDK. Does anyone know of other efforts to do this?
RJ at 2007-9-4 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Basic,Visual Basic IDE...
# 5
I'm looking into using the VS SDK to re-implement this. It looks like a challenge. Has anyone else tried this?
RJ at 2007-9-4 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Basic,Visual Basic IDE...