Question

Visual Studio has a toolbar button/keyboard shortcut/menu item that comments out selected lines of C# code using //.

Is there an equivalent that comments out just the selected code using /* ... */?

e.g.

Given this code

string s = "hello";
Console.WriteLine(s + " world");

If you select + "world" and hit Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C then you end up with

string s = "hello";
//Console.WriteLine(s + " world");

However, I would like

string s = "hello";
Console.WriteLine(s /*+ " world"*/);

This would be useful for when I am making some experimental and temporary amendements to an existing codebase whilst fixing a few bugs.

Answer 1

Resharper does that. It costs money – but it is worth it.

It’s called “Block Comment“.

And the default keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+/