Question

In Visual Studio 2010, I have multiple lines of text to be commented:

A
B
C

Using CTRL+E+C to comment out multiple lines, I get

//A
//B
//C

I would like to have a space (or indent) between // and A, hence // A instead of //A.

However, after I group tab a block of text and indent it, CTRL+E+C no longer comments out the selected text.

How to group comment and get the following:

// A
// B
// C

Answer 1

One way to do it would be:

1. Select the text, Press CTRL + K, C to comment (CTRL+E+C )
2. Move the cursor to the first line after the delimiter // and before the Code text.
3. Press Alt + Shift and use arrow keys to make selection. (Remember to make line selection(using down, up arrow keys), not the text selection – See Box Selection and Multi line editing)
4. Once the selection is done, press space bar to enter a single space.
   

Notice the vertical blue line in the below image( that will appear once the selection is made, then you can insert any number of characters in between them)

I couldn’t find a direct way to do that. The interesting thing is that it is mentioned in the C# Coding Conventions (C# Programming Guide) under Commenting Conventions.

Insert one space between the comment delimiter (//) and the comment
text

But the default implementation of commenting in visual studio doesn’t insert any space