OmegaMan's Musings

I created this before the code snippit region came along. This macro will work with VS2003 and VS2005. Simply highlight the code you want and a dialog box will come up asking for the name. Note depending on the location the #region and #endregion will be at those positions.

Sub RegionIt()

    Dim sWhat As String

 

    sWhat = InputBox("Region Name")

 

    If (sWhat <> "") Then

      Dim selection As TextSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection()

      Dim start As EditPoint = selection.TopPoint.CreateEditPoint()

      Dim endpt As EditPoint = selection.BottomPoint.CreateEditPoint()

      DTE.UndoContext.Open("Comment Region")

      Try

          start.Insert("#region " & sWhat & Chr(13))

          endpt.Insert(Chr(13) & "#endregion")

 

         Finally

          'If an error occured, then need to make sure that the undo 

          'context is cleaned up. Otherwise, the editor can be left 

          'in a perpetual undo context

          DTE.UndoContext.Close()

      End Try

    End If

End Sub

Before the intellisense operation prop came about, I had a need to do something similar but to add comments above the property and variable. The below macro, which works in 2005 and 2003 versions of Visual Studio allows one to create a property with comments. The trick is to create a mask/template and fill it with the specifics of what was queried from the user.

Here is the template and supporting variables

Private Cr As String = Environment.NewLine
Private Start As String = "{"
Private Close As String = "}"

Private mask As String = _
	"/// <summary>{3}</summary>" + Cr + _
	"private {0} {2};" + Cr + _
	"/// <summary>{3}</summary>" + Cr + _
	"public {0} {1}" + Cr + "{{" + Cr + _
	"get {{ return {2};  }}" + Cr + _
	"set {{ {2} = value; }}" + Cr + "}}"

Here is the function which should be excecuted to begin the process. Note it simply queries the user for the information, loads the mask and sends it to be outputted.

Public Sub GeneratePublicProperty()
	Dim PropertyType As String = _
	  InputBox("Property Return type:", "Property Type")

	Dim PropertyName As String = _
	  InputBox("Property Name:", "Property Name")

	Dim FieldName As String = _
	  InputBox("Internal Variable name:", "Field Name")

	Dim Summary As String = InputBox("Summary:", "Summary")

	Dim Code As String = String.Format(mask, PropertyType, PropertyName, FieldName, Summary)

	PasteAlign(Code)

End Sub

Here is the code that outputs it to the screen.

Private Sub PasteAlign(ByVal Code As String)

	' Debug.WriteLine(Code)

	Dim ts As TextSelection = DTE.ActiveWindow.Selection

	ts.Insert(Code.ToString(), vsInsertFlags.vsInsertFlagsInsertAtStart)
	ts.TopPoint.CreateEditPoint.SmartFormat(ts.BottomPoint)

End Sub