Quick-delete surrounding statements in Visual Studio or Resharper

Change the condition to if (true || whatever)? I think that ReSharper will then tell you that the condition is always true, and will offer to remove it.

One solution, although it might not be ideal:

• Click and drag to mark the code you want to keep.
• Use the Resharper command "Surround with..." and select "#region".
• Now you can collapse the code you want to keep using the minus sign at the top of the new region.
• Remove the code surrounding the #region
• Now click the #region title again and select the Resharper option "Remove region/endregion directives".

Not a perfect solution, but it should help you get a better overview of what you're doing when working with larger blocks of code than your OP example.

It should look something like this (where the #region directive can hide any of lines of code):

Shift+delete to cut IF line

Alt+Enter on bracket to remove redundant braces.