Many seasoned developers would argue that if your method is so long, and contains so many nested blocks of code in braces that you need to be able to collapse the sections to make better sense of your code, that you should refactor that code! And of course, they are right. This can be done either by moving sections out to new methods, or perhaps inverting your if statements to reduce nesting. However, lets be honest, when you initially write something, it often starts out as a single really long method and in order to refactor it you still need to identify where each block starts and ends. And of course sometimes you have to work with code other developers wrote. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to collapse a loop, or a try catch block just by clicking on a little minus sign? True you could wrap these sections with regions, but to do that you would have to figure out where the section starts and ends to insert the region statements and by doing that you wouldn't really need them anymore. If you are working in C++ in Visual Studio, you can collapse code blocks, but this functionality is not part of the C# options. Fortunately, there is a Visual Studio 2010 extension you can install to add this functionality to C#.
