Note: This "feature" has now been added to Visual Studio 2015 but the question will hold a while since not every developer or every dev shop gets access to the latest and greatest IDE as soon as it comes out.
ORIGINAL QUESTION:
Normally I wouldn't "need" or even consider a ridiculous feature such as code regions within method bodies but: I'm refactoring VB.NET code where methods routinely run five hundred lines of code or more and the references are so tightly coupled that the code defies simple refactoring such as method extraction.
And that's why I thought I would try regions within a method body. I just wanted to organize the code for the short term. But the IDE doesn't let me (resulted in a compiler error.) I'm just curious as to why? Seems like code regions shouldn't impact the compiler, intellisense etc. Am I missing something? (Still using VS 2005 btw.)
Interesting: This seems to be language specific. It's OK in C# (I didn't check that initially) but not in VB.NET.
public module MyModule
Sub RunSnippet()
dim a as A = new A (Int32.MaxValue )
#region
Console.WriteLine ("")
#end region
....
that gets a compiler error but the C# version is ok.
As of November 2015: In Visual Studio 2015 it is now supported, just do what you like.
Sample Code:
With frmMain
#region "A sample region in odd place"
.show()
.text = "Sample"
#end region
End With
Note: In earlier versions of Visual Studio it seems that it is not working in VB.NET, but in C# it is working.