Question

When I press the standard Ctrl + E, C (an other variants) in VS2008 whilst editing a CSS file, it says that command is not available. How do I setup a shortcut to apply a plain old /* */ comment to selected text in VS? Thanks

Answer 1

Within Visual Studio, hit Alt-F11 to open the Macro IDE and add a new module by right-clicking on MyMacros and selecting Add|Add Module…

Paste the following in the source editor:

Imports System Imports EnvDTE Imports EnvDTE80 Imports EnvDTE90 Imports System.Diagnostics  Public Module CommentCSS     Sub CommentCSS()         Dim selection As TextSelection         selection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection          Dim selectedText As String         selectedText = selection.Text          If selectedText.Length > 0 Then             selection.Text = '/*' + selectedText + '*/'         End If     End Sub End Module 

You can create a keyboard shortcut by going to Tools|Options… and selecting Keyboard under the Environment section in the navigation on the left. Select your macro and assign any shortcut you like.

You can also add your macro to a menu or toolbar by going to Tools|Customize… and selecting the Macros section in the navigation on the left. Once you locate your macro in the list, you can drag it to any menu or toolbar, where it its text or icon can be customized to whatever you want.