Is there a way I can make VS2010 expand or contract try blocks inside my methods?

Question

My code has a lot of try, catch, finally blocks. Unlike methods when I am in VS2010 I can't expand or contract these areas to hide the contents while developing except by adding regions.

        try {
            vm.R...
            vm.Qu..
            vm.T...
            vm.D...
            vm.Fil..
            vm.Type..
            vm.St..
        } catch (Exception e) {
            log(e);
            return Content(ExceptionExtensions.GetFormattedErrorMessage(e));
        }

Is there a technique that programmers use to tidy up code within try blocks or do I just have to live with these larger blocks of code.

Answer 1

Without actually modifying the code, the only thing I know of is to use outlining. You can "hide" a selection which basically creates an outline section that you can expand and collapse just like a class, namespace, method, #if block, etc. To do this:

• Select the lines you want to collapse.
• Choose Edit\Outlining\Hide Selection (or Ctrl+M,Ctrl+H with the C# keyboard scheme)

The selection is now collapsed and you can expand it and re-collapse it any time you want just like a method. (e.g. with +/- glyph at the left or with Ctrl+M,M)

Answer 2

For really clean code, try Extracting Methods, so that your blocks are smaller. And, if it's really necessary, you'll get the automatic code folding from Visual Studio.