Thanks, Paul. Yeah, I'm getting the impression intellisense ain't gonna do it, but I have learned some cool stuff about macros. I've figured out how to create the macro to do what I want

    Sub InsertCRH()
        Dim textSelection As EnvDTE.TextSelection

        textSelection = CType(DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection(), EnvDTE.TextSelection)
        textSelection.Text = "' CRH: " & System.DateTime.Now.ToString() & CrLf _
        & "' "

    End Sub

and how to drag that onto the toolbar for easy access. By adding CRH as a tasklist token i can now find all my own comments I insert into code easily.

And while messing around with that I put the CommentRegion() macro on the toolbar and then wrote an Uncomment macro

  Sub UncommentBlock()
        Dim current As String
        current = DTE.ActiveDocument.Name

        DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.Find")
        DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.SwitchtoQuickReplace")
        DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.SelectAll")
        DTE.Windows.Item(current).Activate()

        DTE.Find.FindWhat = "'"
        DTE.Find.ReplaceWith = ""
        DTE.Find.Target = vsFindTarget.vsFindTargetCurrentDocumentSelection
        DTE.Find.MatchCase = False
        DTE.Find.MatchWholeWord = False
        DTE.Find.MatchInHiddenText = True
        DTE.Find.PatternSyntax = vsFindPatternSyntax.vsFindPatternSyntaxLiteral
        DTE.Find.ResultsLocation = vsFindResultsLocation.vsFindResultsNone
        DTE.Find.Action = vsFindAction.vsFindActionReplaceAll
        If (DTE.Find.Execute() = vsFindResult.vsFindResultNotFound) Then
            Throw New System.Exception("vsFindResultNotFound")
        End If
        DTE.Windows.Item("{CF2DDC32-8CAD-11D2-9302-005345000000}").Close()
    End Sub

as I couldn't find an equivalent in VB 2008 for what we've had in VFP.

Love the VS IDE but can see there is still room for improvement <g>



>>I am having fun with the VB code snippet editor. i want to be able to insert a comment block with my initials and current datetime and don't seem to have the magic formula. Have this in CEE but trying to figure it out in VB
>>
>>'CRH: Wednesday 03/16/08
>>' Insert comment here
>>'
>
>I could be wrong, but I don't think code snippets support this kind of thing - you'd have to do this as a macro (at least, that's my foggy memory of things since I wanted to do something very similar).
>
>I ended up using Coderush/Refactor! from DevExpress and writing a very simple plug-in for it. Actually Coderush can be downloaded for free (just without all of the extras). If you decide to go this route, let me know. You're welcome to this code/plug in.

I'll check out the DevExpress thing you referenced and let you know.

Thanks again