Is there a way to syntax highlight an If - End If statement in VB.Net

Question

I am trying to read through some code and it would be helpful if the editor in VS 2008 would highlight the If statement by using the cursor and double clicking the End If statement (or something like that).

I believe I could do something like this in Java using Eclipse - it was very good at highlighting a code block by clicking next to one of the curly braces.

Anyone know how to do this kind of thing?

Answer 1

I don't think this is possible by default in regular pure Visual Studio installation - statement blocks are not highlighted in VB.NET.

There are many text-highlighting plugins (like Visual Assist X etc.) some of them are free, maybe some of them provide this feature.

I use Expression Studio 3, in the code editor all the bloks have a visible indentation, I wish this could be in VS too...

I think that VS 2010 has implemented it so don't waste time on creating your own plug-in (unless you do it for fun...).