The #Region Directive

Organizing the IDE is one of the most important areas of productivity. The #Region directive allows you to organize your code into collapsible blocks of code which helps to make viewing code easier by displaying only those functions you are working with. Each region can be defined with a name that helps to identify it.

For example, assume that you have the following code in a Windows form. By default, the IDE already contains some built in regions that can be used to collapse code as shown below

When these are selected you can collapse your code down as shown below.

If you wanted to further customize these you could add your own regions as shown below.

When collapsed the code then looks like the following