Snippet to Create “C# Like” Collapsible Regions in VS2012 Javascript Files

Ever wanted to create a collapsible region within Javascript? If you have the Web Essentials Extension for VS 2012 you already have that feature:

But, the one thing that they are missing in the Web Essentials Extension is a snippet to allow you to automatically insert the region syntax.  Just save this text to “C:\Users\$UserName$\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Code Snippets\JavaScript\My Code Snippets\regions.snippet” on your local computer, and viola!

<CodeSnippet Format="1.1.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
  <Header>
    <Title>region</Title>
    <Author>Daryl LaBar</Author>
    <Shortcut>region</Shortcut>
    <Description>Code snippet for region in javascript Using Web Essentials 2012</Description>
    <SnippetTypes>
      <SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
      <SnippetType>SurroundsWith</SnippetType>
    </SnippetTypes>
  </Header>
  <Snippet>
    <Declarations>
      <Literal>
        <ID>name</ID>
        <ToolTip>Region name</ToolTip>
        <Default>MyRegion</Default>
      </Literal>
    </Declarations>
    <Code Language="JavaScript">
      <![CDATA[//#region $name$
 
 $selected$$end$
 
//#endregion $name$]]>
    </Code>
  </Snippet>
</CodeSnippet>