Need hotkey/button to comment out a block of code in Visual Studio 2008 Express

Question

I\'m coming from Eclipse, working in Visual Studio 2008 Express and just want to highlight code, right-click and comment it out.

• nothing in right-click
• lo

Answer 1

Mauro is right about the shortcuts, they're in Express as well. You can also get to the Comment/Uncomment block commands in the Edit->Advanced menu. You probably also have a toolbar icon to do this that looks like a couple of lines, with a few indented blue ones.

Answer 2

Weird it's Ctrl+E, C (Comment) and Ctrl+E, U (Uncomment)

Normally It's Ctrl+K, C and Ctrl+K, U as Mauro says. Express Edition default (and only) keyboard mapping says otherwise.

Answer 3

the key combination

Comment    ctrl-k, ctrl-c
uncomment  ctrl-k, ctrl-u

Thats VS 2008, not sure if the express editions have the same thing.

Answer 4

Visual Assist X also has better shortcuts for this:

/ - comment the block with //
* - comment the block with /* */

I'm not sure if it Visual Assist works with The express edition though