Is there any shortcut to collapse/expand the regions ONLY? Meaning, if I have a region with 5 methods in it, and I hit collapse, the region will collapse, and when I will hit expand, the region will expand and I will see all 5 methods with the same state as it was before (collapsed/expanded).
Currently the shortcuts I found collapse ALL, or expand ALL, or substitutes the "All" word for the "Current" word.
I'm looking for a shortcut that will collapse only regions, and will not do anything to the other blocks inside a region. Same thing with expanding.
If there is no such thing, maybe someone found some visual extension to do it?
cheers
Lucas
You can use the following macros to expand/collapse the regions while leaving the expand/collapse state of individual methods as they were.
I found the macro here. Note that I had to comment out the call to objSelection.EndOfDocument() from the CollapseAllRegions method for it to work properly (using Visual Studio 2010)
Imports EnvDTE
Imports System.Diagnostics
' Macros for improving keyboard support for "#region ... #endregion"
Public Module RegionTools
' Expands all regions in the current document
Sub ExpandAllRegions()
Dim objSelection As TextSelection ' Our selection object
DTE.SuppressUI = True ' Disable UI while we do this
objSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection() ' Hook up to the ActiveDocument's selection
objSelection.StartOfDocument() ' Shoot to the start of the document
' Loop through the document finding all instances of #region. This action has the side benefit
' of actually zooming us to the text in question when it is found and ALSO expanding it since it
' is an outline.
Do While objSelection.FindText("#region", vsFindOptions.vsFindOptionsMatchInHiddenText)
' This next command would be what we would normally do *IF* the find operation didn't do it for us.
'DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.ToggleOutliningExpansion")
Loop
objSelection.StartOfDocument() ' Shoot us back to the start of the document
DTE.SuppressUI = False ' Reenable the UI
objSelection = Nothing ' Release our object
End Sub
' Collapses all regions in the current document
Sub CollapseAllRegions()
Dim objSelection As TextSelection ' Our selection object
ExpandAllRegions() ' Force the expansion of all regions
DTE.SuppressUI = True ' Disable UI while we do this
objSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection() ' Hook up to the ActiveDocument's selection
objSelection.EndOfDocument() ' Shoot to the end of the document
' Find the first occurence of #region from the end of the document to the start of the document. Note:
' Note: Once a #region is "collapsed" .FindText only sees it's "textual descriptor" unless
' vsFindOptions.vsFindOptionsMatchInHiddenText is specified. So when a #region "My Class" is collapsed,
' .FindText would subsequently see the text 'My Class' instead of '#region "My Class"' for the subsequent
' passes and skip any regions already collapsed.
Do While (objSelection.FindText("#region", vsFindOptions.vsFindOptionsBackwards))
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.ToggleOutliningExpansion") ' Collapse this #region
'objSelection.EndOfDocument() ' Shoot back to the end of the document for
' another pass.
Loop
objSelection.StartOfDocument() ' All done, head back to the start of the doc
DTE.SuppressUI = False ' Reenable the UI
objSelection = Nothing ' Release our object
End Sub
End Module
why not simply hit
ctrl + m + m
while cursor in #region regionname
I've written a free Visual Studio extension "Menees VS Tools" that provides commands for "Collapse All Regions" and "Expand All Regions". It's available for VS versions from 2003 to 2013. The VS 2013 and VS 2012 versions are available in the Visual Studio Gallery.