SSMS: Separating blocks of comments while collapsed - formatting

Question

Is there a way in SSMS editor to visually separate two comment blocks that are placed one right after another when the comments are collapsed?
Please look at the link below - remember that this code is just for demonstration purpose.
When this code is collapsed in the SSMS editor, I see all the commented code collapsed.
I want to be able to see each comment block as a separate collapsed region, as in below (this is an edited image) -
I did consider using a GO, but in my case this code is part of a stored procedure, and I have a BEGIN and END that encapsulates this part of code, so that will not work.
I thought of using BEGIN/END, but that will not work either because I only have comments and no code that goes inside.
The closest work-around I came up with is using a blank PRINT '' - but, I fee this is redundant, and even counter-productive when used inside a stored procedure that will always be called from the application and would never be run from SSMS except when debugging.
Does anyone have any ideas on this? Suggestions/direction of any free third-party plug-ins is also appreciated.

Answer 1

I don't know of any way to do it without the comments collapsing into one region.
In SQL Server 2008 Management Studio (and probably most recent ones), you can use {$REGION} to at least give you a way to name or describe the collapsed region, which may help:
{$REGION "Comment One"}
-- This is comment one
{$ENDREGION}
SELECT dbo.
{$REGION "This is comment two"}
-- This is a separate comment
{$ENDREGION}
SELECT ...
But there has to be content between the two regions, or they still get merged into one.
The above also works while embedded inside /*..*/ comments, too (which is valid T-SQL, for #scriptfromscratch), but it still merges the comments unless there is content between them:
/* {$REGION "Test region 1"}
-- This is a test comment
{$ENDREGION}
*/
SELECT dbo.something
/* {$REGION "Test region 2"}
This is test comment 2
{$ENDREGION}
*/
SELECT dbo.
It looks to me like you'll need a third-party tool of some sort that provides this functionality, but I'm not aware of one that does this, I'm afraid.

Answer 2

I know this is an old thread, but as I don't see the simple solution I use, I thought I'd chime in.
I tend to use block comments mostly, and inline comments where there's only going to be one line or something short. If your closing block comment tag is followed by a semicolon, you can collapse any adjacent blocks independently, as shown below.
FYI this works in SSMS 2012, I can't vouch for any other version.
Unfortunately this cannot work for adjacent inline comments. The OP would probably be better off using a block comment to enclose any adjacent/related comments into separate blocks instead.
Ken White is on the right track, however the $REGION stuff is unnecessary in my opinion. The following approach achieves the exact same effect, except much more cleanly.
Using $REGION to group commands would be equally clumsy, as flagrant use of BEGIN END blocks will do the same job. Just remember to indent properly to avoid confusion.
Enjoy