Commenting blocks of code

Is there a way to comment a block of code, besides manually going to each line and ' ing it for each line? I mean, if C++ and Java have it, Visual Basic should have it too!

-Jordan

[Krass]

Not that I know of. I slightly checked one time and never found out how.

[orasbot]

1. Right click on your toobar and check Edit
2. Select your block of codes to comment
3. From the new set of toolbars, click on Comment Block

Note:
Other handy editing tools are provided as well as form editor tools.

hope this help.

[dimava]

There is a way, I found it in the MSDN library

1. Your right click (in the toolbar area) and click on the EDIT toolbar

2. there are 2 buttons there. They have aqua blue lines in them. so you highlight the text that you want to comment then you click the left button and it automaticly adds the ' infront of very line, then the second button (to the right of it) un comments the code

[Krass]

Good stuff. That toolbar is now docked to my other ones...

Thanks.. too bad there's no syntax to do it manually (I personally hate using the mouse for anything)

[dimava]

you can do what I do sometimes:

Arrow Down
Arrow Left
'

Arrow Down
Arrow Left
'
etc....

[Krass]

arrow down
arrow home

that's what I do, quick enough...

[dimava]

tell you'll have to strech your fingers to get both keys rapidly as where the arrows you can use your middle finger and index

[Krass]

Oh, I'm using the numeral keypad to move around. I know it's not a good habit, but since my early commodore 64 years I used it that way =)

That's why I use 'Home'.

[dimava]

why isn't it a good habit
I'm not saying its a good habit, but its just not a bad habit, its just a prefrence

[Krass]

I called it a bad habit since it often happens that someone uses my computer after me and they try using the numeral keypad as it's meant to be used: for typing numbers.

I often find myself more comfortable using that pad to type numbers so I have to toggle the Num Lock all the time.

For me it's a bad habit =) Arrows should work just fine... although it's nice to have the pgup, pgdn, home and end near.

dimava, I meant there's no actual syntax to comment big chunks of code ala Java: /*

Highlighting the text and clicking a toolbar button just to comment code is just too much work!!

[Krass]

...thought I was lazy...

[Aaron Young]

Actually there is a Syntactical way, place the apostrophe at the beginning of the block, then at the end of each line add a space and an underscore, i.e. [CODE]Private Sub Form_Load()
'Commented Block of Code _
See This 2nd Line is Commented too!
End Sub[CODE]