Collapse C# block within cshtml and save it

Question

We have a bit big blocks of C# code within our cshtml files which must be presented in cshtml and nowhere else (obviously it's not a brilliant case but it's another question).

How we can collapse or hide these blocks of code in order to let our designers work more smoothly? We also want to hide these blocks of code during the demos of the progress with markup.

The real issue is that we also must save the visual representation into SVN.

Is there any native VS 2010 functionality for this or plugin? Maybe there is an opportunity to use "partial" cshtml pages where all the markup will be in one file and all C# code will be in another?

Unfortunately VS isn't going to collapse C# blocks of code within #region directive in such files.

Ultimately there is a similar question Regions In ASP.NET Views? but it gives no answer on how to save the collapsed representation when "Collapse Tag" context menu action item was used.

Answer 1

Try using Visual Studio's collapse functionality. By default I believe the keys are:

[Ctrl+M,Ctrl+H] to hide an arbitrary selection, and
[Ctrl+M,Ctrl+U] to unhide the same ( while collapsed ).

This should allow you to temporarily hide any code. More details available on MSDN

Is this what you were looking for?

Having read a little further you wish to save them collapsed, and apparently .cshtml doesn't support #regions. I guess a hacky solution might be the old:

@if(false){
    <div>
        <!--/*{your long code}*/-->
    </div>
}

Or something to that effect, but you get the idea :)

Answer 2

Just select your code, right click and select Collapse Tag