I just started using Visual Studio 2013. I liked the auto brace completion feature. But in C#, when I press enter after entering {, no extra line to write our code is formed, like in eclipse. Instead the cursor will be at the left side of the }. Did anybody notice that? Is there a way to fix it.
When I press Enter key after putting brace, the editor is like this:
class Example {
|}
(The cursor is where the pipeline character is..)
EDIT:
I just found that in Visual C++ 2013, the braces work as expected.
class Example {
|
}
(The cursor is where the pipeline character is..)
Check within Options on the Text Editor/All Langauges/General page. Select "Automatic brace completion."
By the way in 2013 you can search for words like "brace" at the top of the treeview control in Options to find all the pages were "brace" is found.
Answer taken from here.
Try typing
class
then press Tab.
Same goes for interface, if blocks, etc.
If you want to write a property, type
prop
then press Tab.
You can press Ctrl-Enter and it will reposition the closing brace as you expected. Because Ctrl-Enter makes a new line above the current line.
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Given the following code example
someMethod(②someArgument①);③
I know moving the cursor from position ①->② shortcut is CTRL+], is there a ①->③ shortcut.
Is there a keyboard shortcut that escapes the brace when cursor is just left of brace (Not with End key).
In Eclipse, It can easily work with Tab key.
(In Visual Studio) - Try Ctrl+Shift+] - That seems to select text to where you might need to be, but if you press the ] again, by itself, it deselects, but leaves the cursor where you appear to want it.
Is that what you're looking for?
All right, this is stupid, but I have no clue how people deal with this and I'm hoping I'm missing something...
When I write something like this:
if (n == 0)
...The closing parenthesis gets added as soon as I type the opening one. The only way I know of to get out of them now is to reach over and tap the End key or something, which kind of ... Damages my shui, you know? And yet apparently they thought this feature was a cool idea, so...
What do you normally do to tell the IDE that you're done with this bit and you're ready to move on to the next? Same question applies to automatic quotes and stuff in the XAML editor, I guess.
Just keep typing - if you type your own ) when the cursor is just before the automatic one, it should not create another ), but just move the cursor over it.
(Disclaimer: I'm not certain this works on a vanilla Visual Studio - I have a bunch of extensions installed)
You can press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open a new line below the current one without moving the cursor to the end of the line.
To add to this, Tab is another option and I find it easier:
In your example, type the logic, press Tab to skip passed the end bracket.
If you are inside auto quotes, type your text, then press Tab twice.
Like the other answer, it only applies when first being typed, so if you go back to edit something, you are left using the End and Arrow keys.
In Visual Studio 2015 with Productivity Power Tools installed (probably works earlier as well), when being inside an auto-complete block (quotes or braces):
end goes to line end ( typically slow to type/find)
"/) typing same key as auto-complete already inserted will simply replace the auto-inserted character
tab jumps over end of auto-complete (e. g. braces or quotes)
shift+enter adds ; at end of line, goes to new line (often what you want)
ctrl+shift+enter goes to new line
There is a short key in VS - "Edit.LineEnd" - pressing "End" you get to the end of the current line. I've re-assigned it (for me the best variant was "Alt-Enter") and use it to get outside of parentheses and quotes.
Hit the enter key when you are done typing.
Say you have a large amount of C# code in an if statement. If you place your carat next to the opening bracket, is there a hotkey or something in ReSharper that will automatically take you to the closing bracket?
VS offers this shortcut, regardless of whether you have R# installed.
Ctrl + ] will take you to the opening brace. Subsequent presses will jump between the RHS/LHS of the scope.
See Go to Matching Brace in Visual Studio? (now as an answer as requested!)
ReSharper assigns the shortcut (Control + ´ - I have german keyboard) to a different command. In order to restore it go to Tools - Options - Environment - Keyboard, search for Edit.GotoBrace and enter the desired shortcut key.
See to what command it is currently assigned and then remove it for this command first by searching this command and clicking Remove. Then again search for Edit.GotoBrace and assign the shortcut.
Directly assigning without Removing it first didn´t work.
Visual Studio's shortcut is (under the IntelliJ shortcut set): Control + ] when your cursor is on the opening brace goes to the ending brace. The inverse is also true.
now i am using vs2010 trail version.
i want to see the matching braces if there are multiple braces. the opening brace and the closing brace must be highlight.. how to achieve this?
Thank you,
Mihir
The link above should give you all default key mappings.
Another useful link is: Pre-defined keyboard shortcuts
I'd just like to mention a couple that I find very useful:
To jump back and forth between matching braces, you can put your cursor on either brace, and then push Ctrl-]
And also Ctrl-M Ctrl-L toggles all outlining in the current file, and Ctrl-M Ctrl-M toggles the current region
from msdn: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/be94e8aw%28v=vs.80%29.aspx
outlines all the options and how to set them up
for javascript: Brace highlighting in Visual Studio for Javascript?
There is a command in Visual Studio 2005 called Edit.SelectToLastGoBack (bound to Ctrl + =).
I presume it is supposed to select all the text between the current cursor position and the last 'Go Back' point, but I can't work out the algorithm it's using for deciding what that point is.
Does anyone know how to use this potentially very useful command?
Selects to the last juimp point ...
Try using the navigation bar to jump to another method in class. Then press Ctrl + "="
It will select from the start of method you jumped to all the way back to where you jumped from.
I have yet to find a use for it though TBH,
Kindness,
Dan
I use it for recording macros.
Frequently I want to select everything from this brace to that brace and cut it in a macro. Go to the first brace, hit ctrl-f (ctrl-i doesn't work right in macros), search to the second brace, close search with escape, and hit ctrl-= to get everything between the braces selected. This is much more reliably repeatable in a macro than something like using ctrl arrows to navigate a word at a time while holding down shift, and is similar to the emacs concept of setting a mark point.
I'm not sure what all starts a new 'location in navigation history', but I'm sure starting a search does and that's all I need.
I just discovered this command is available in Visual Studio 2012. I've been looking for it ever since I got VS 2012. I kept thinking it was something like anchor, like select everything between the anchor and point. I was disappointed that macro recording and playing are no longer available. But I am glad this command still exists.
Another useful command is ctrl+k ctrl+a, which is Edit.SwapAnchor. So, you could be someplace in the code, then do a find. Now you have the point and anchor (maybe also known as the cursor and last goback). You can do ctrl+= to select, then ctrl+k ctrl+a then extend from the other end using another find--or something like that.