How to quickly surround text with html markup in vs 2008?

Question

Hello,

I am working with the vs 2008 editor. Is there a way to take a piece of text for example, highlight it and use shortcuts to quickly add markup. For example, lets say I have the text, I went to the store and I want to bold the line the store, I have to type <b>the store</b>. Is there a quicker and easier way to do this?

Thanks, XaiSoft

Answer 1

With HTML Editor just prese Ctrl+B...

With regular text editor VS does not provide something build-in, but you can add custom macros. Something like the following will do job for you.

Sub MakeSelectionBold()
        DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "<b>" + DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text + "</b>"
End Sub

You can then assign it to the short-cart or add button to our toolbar.