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Is there a way in Visual Studio 2008 to go from a closing brace to its opening brace? I've found a fair amount of stuff about highlighting the brace, but nothing about moving the cursor to it.
(VB.NET version of this Question: Keyboard shortcut for Jumping between "If/End If")
I found this for you: Jump between braces in Visual Studio:
Put your cursor before or after the brace (your choice) and then press CTRL + ]. It works with parentheses ( ), brackets [ ] and braces { }. From now on you don’t need to play Where’s Waldo? to find that brace.
With the above shortcut, you can also hold SHIFT to select.
On MacOS, use CMD + SHIFT + \ .
I use Visual Studio 2008, and you can customize what you want this shortcut to be.
Click menu Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard. Then look for Edit.GotoBrace.
This will tell you what key combination is currently assigned for this. I think you can change this if you want, but it's useful if the Ctrl + ] doesn't work.
Use CTRL + ] to switch between them. Place the cursor at one of the braces when using it.
Note: It also works for #if / #elif / #endif matching. The caret must be on the #.
If for some reason this is NOT working for you, something may have messed up your keyboard bindings (it didn't work for me). You can re-enable the binding easy enough though - at least so I thought:
I tried this procedure:
Go to menu Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard
Scroll to, or search for the command Edit.GotoBrace
Assign the desired shortcut (mine was empty, so I put in CTRL + ])
Be sure to click the "Assign Button"
I tried it, and it still didn't work. I restarted Visual Studio, and it still didn't work - well it ONLY worked for .cs files, but I need it to work for .vb files and text files, and...well ALL files!
On my French keyboard, it's CTRL + ^.
On a German keyboard it's Ctrl + ´.
On a Spanish keyboard it is CTRL + ¿ (or CTRL + ¡).
On my Danish keyboard it's CTRL + Å.
On a Turkish keyboard, it is Ctrl + ü.
And Ctrl + Shift + ] will select all of the text.
For completeness sake, on a Swedish keyboard it's CTRL + å .
Also, I guess logical, but worth mentioning CTRL + shift + å (for capital Å), selects everything inside the braces and goes to the matching one.
On my Portuguese keyboard and SO with EN VS, it's CTRL + « to navigate to matching brace and CTRL + SHIFT + « if you intend to select the inner code.
On my Italian keyboard, it's CTRL + ^.
On my pt-BR (Brazilian Portuguese) keyboard it is actually CTRL + [.
On my Slovenian keyboard it is ALT + Đ
On a Mac use command+shift+\.
Source: a comment on this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37877082/3345085.
Tested in Visual Studio Code version 1.10.2.
For Visual Studio Code (as seen in their documentation), use Ctrl+Shift+\.
The setting can be found in:
File/Preferences/Keyboard Shortcut
I am using Visual Studio Code 1.8.0 . Note Visual Studio Code may behave differently for international keyboards (as seen in this answer re: German keyboard)
Hope this helps someone.
On my Dutch (Belgian) keyboard, it's CTRL + ^.
Goto Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors, select the "Brace Matching (Rectangle)" and change the "Item Background" to e.g. Yellow. This worked for the C# parentheses () {} and [].
Details that can benefit everyone (Linux/Win/Mac)
The command in the keyboard shortcuts menu/editor is editor.action.jumpToBracket there you can set it to whatever you like. There is also one called editor.action.selectToBracket which has no shortcut by default (at least on Mac).
Etc.
On the Mac editor.action.jumpToBracket starts out as Cmd+Shift+\
and I changed it to Ctrl+] to be in line with what others say here. I did so in the hopes that I could use Ctrl+Shift+] to "Extend selection to matching bracket". That is what lead me to discover the details above. I set editor.action.selectToBracket to Ctrl+Shift+] and got exactly the behavior I wanted.
On a Hungarian keyboard it is Ctrl + ú.
A bit relevant, but for HTML tags: (since there is no built-in solution, Ctrl + J doesn't work for HTML tags : )
Here is the answer as a macro which I've built which does it (toggle), including go to focus:
Here is the demo:
And here is the code. Enjoy!
Imports System
Imports EnvDTE
Imports EnvDTE80
Imports EnvDTE90
Imports EnvDTE90a
Imports EnvDTE100
Imports System.Diagnostics
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Public Module Module2
Sub beginToEnd()
'Place the cursor somewhere in the beginning tag, run the macro, to select from beginning to end tag
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.SelectLine()
Dim objSel As TextSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection
Dim topPoint As TextPoint = objSel.TopPoint
Dim lTopLine As Long = topPoint.Line
objSel.GotoLine(lTopLine, False)
' DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine()
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.SelectLine()
Dim line1 As String = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text()
If InStr(line1, "/") Then
' MsgBox(line1)
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.ToggleOutliningExpansion")
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine()
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine(vsStartOfLineOptions.vsStartOfLineOptionsFirstText, True)
objSel.GotoLine(lTopLine, False)
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.ToggleOutliningExpansion")
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.ToggleOutliningExpansion")
Else
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.ToggleOutliningExpansion")
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine(False)
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.ToggleOutliningExpansion")
End If
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.SelectLine()
Dim line2 As String = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text()
Dim objSel3 As TextSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection
Dim topPoint3 As TextPoint = objSel3.TopPoint
Dim lTopLine3 As Long = topPoint3.Line
objSel.GotoLine(lTopLine3, False)
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine(vsStartOfLineOptions.vsStartOfLineOptionsFirstText, False)
End Sub
End Module
In Visual Studio Code on german keyboard it's ctrl+shift+^
But you have to open a file with correct extension - it's not working in new unsaved files for example.
On the Swiss-French keyboard : use CTRL + SHIFT + ^
On Spanish (Spain) keyboard with VS2012 is Ctrl + ¡ as stated by #Keith but if you use Ctrl + ¿ (typed as Ctrl + Shift + ¡) then goes to Matching Brace plus selects all the code within the two braces and then you can't go again to the other brace.
June 2021
On a Mac running Windows 10 under parallels for Visual Studio 2019 and c# and with US keyboard the solution which worked for me was to edit the shortcut in"
Tools
Options
Keyboard
Edit.GoToBrace
On my system that shortcut was blank...
Press the Ctl key and the ] key and save the shortcut
I want to delete a line just like hitting Ctrl + X without anything selected, but without saving the line to the copy stack. Is this possible?
I'm using Visual Studio 2010.
Edit.LineDelete is the name of the command. By default it's bound to Ctrl + Shift + L, but you can give it whatever you like in Tools | Options | Keyboard.
Edit: Corrected default shortcut info.
Ctrl + Shift + L will delete the line and not copy to the clipboard.
I mapped Ctrl + L (Global) to Edit.LineDelete. Otherwise, the shortcut key is Ctrl + Shift + L, which is awkward. Go to Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard as shown below.
Correction in my answer
Ubuntu 16 &
Visual studio Version: 1.30.1
To cut line
Shift + del
To delete line Shift + Ctrl + k
CTRL + L (Visual Studio 2019 Windows)
Its Cmd + Shift + K on mac by default.
But it can be modified according to user needs from the settings (Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts) -> search for Delete Line key value.
Valid Answer By 2022 for VS Code (with image)
All the above answers regarding Ctrl + Shift + L are now deprecated.
The correct default behavior is Ctrl + Shift + K
(⌘ + Shift + K if you're a MAC user).
To change this default behavior:
1- Go to File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts (OR click Ctr+K Ctrl+S)
2- Type in the search bar delete line
Here you will find the corresponding behavior. You can change it just by double-clicking on it and pressing any desired combination of keys on your keyboard (pay attention of conflicting shortcuts).
By default, if you are using the C# default profile, you can delete a line using Ctrl + Shift + L.
You can customize this using Tools->Customize. Select "Keyboard". Look for the command Edit.LineDelete to assign it to whichever keyboard shortcut you like.
Source
If you got here looking for an answer for Visual Studio Code the default shortcut is:
ctrl + shift + K for Windows
⌘ + shift + K for MacOS
However, you can change on File > Preferences > Keyboard shortcuts
{
"key": "ctrl+shift+delete",
"command": "editor.action.deleteLines",
"when": "editorTextFocus && !editorReadonly"
}
Source
none of the above answers worked for me. to delete a line in visual studio code use :shift+del
All the answers were helpful but didn't seem to work for me.
So I found the solution --> for Visual Studio 2017 (and certainly 2019):
Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard > on the right pane select Edit.LineEdit.
Below there is a ComboBox Use new shortcut in: with Global written --> Change it to Text Editor.
On the right there is a Text input Press shortcut keys:, so use the shortcut of your choice.
Then click on Assign PushButton on the right (otherwise it won't be applied).
Finally > OK.
You can now open a .CPP file and use your shortcut to remove a line.
On Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, it's CTRL + K to cut the whole line by default.
Here is a url for the keyboard short cut reference for windows:
https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-windows.pdf
For windows: Ctrl + Shift + k
The other answers are specific to Visual Studio, which is what was requested by OP, however if anyone is looking for a more generalized way to do this for most Windows programs, you can also Triple-Click to select any block of text, then just press the Delete key. This works for any Windows text editors or TextBoxes, including password boxes, search boxes, browser web address boxes, etc. For text editors such as Visual Studio, a block of text is typically one line of code. Obviously you can do other things too, such as triple-click to select a line of code, then Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V to cut/paste, etc, or just triple-click and type over it to replace a line.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to display tooltips provided by Visual Studio & Resharper when you hover over a bit of code? I'm already aware of Quick Documentation (Ctrl + Q) and Quick Watch (Ctrl + Alt + Q).
Do you mean Ctrl + K, Ctrl + I? This is the command Edit.Quickinfo.
(sorry, I am unable to add a comment with the PC I have now)
For the single variable, do you mean in debug mode ?
2nd Edit: I think VS names these tooltips 'datatips'. Unfortunately, there is no command to show them, so no possible shortcut.
You can do it by binding this command to a key:
EditorContextMenus.CodeWindow.PinToSource
Unfortunately it works with what you have selected, not with what you are hovering over. Not only do you have to do the extra click, but you need to select the entire variable name and all of its prefixes as well.
Old question but useful to know.
My shortcuts:
PinToSource set to alt-F1
ClearAllDataTips set to shift-alt-F1
CTRL+ALT+Q
It is equivalent to
SHIFT+F9
I have plenty of experience with Eclipse, and now I'm trying out Visual Studio 2010. I find its formatting somewhat counter-intuitive. Here are some things I'm trying to figure out:
Is there a way to select all text and format/indent it properly, like SHIFT+A SHIFT+I in Eclipse?
Why is it that when I type a line like if (n == 0) {, as soon as I type the opening brace, the text cursor is moved to the beginning of the line? Is this some productivity speedup I'm failing to see?
When I hit ENTER after the aforementioned line, I'd like the closing brace to be put in place automatically for me. How can I do this?
I've looked for hotkey documentation, and it's helped a bit, but this still feels clunky to me.
The Format Document shortcut key combination is Ctrl K, Ctrl D. Since this command is not supported in C++ ( Visual Studio 2010: Why aren't key combinations available?), the workaround for C++ files is to Select All then Format Selection: Ctrl A, Ctrl K, Ctrl F.
On your second and third question, see Creating and Using IntelliSense Code Snippets. Short version: for if, type "if {TAB} {TAB}". Again, this not supported for C++. So if you're in C++, what you're seeing is when you typed typed the { on the line after the if, what the editor did was move the { to the same indention level as the if (not necessarily the beginning of the line), because the coding style it's helping you achieve is
if (n == 0)
{
n = 1;
}
The formatting commands are by default bound to Ctrl+K Ctrl+??. Ctrl+K as the first keystoke, followed by another key stroke that determines the specific formatting option.
Look at the Advanced submenu of the Edit menu. It will show you that
"format selection" is Ctrl+k Ctrl+f
"comment selection" is Ctrl+k Ctrl+c
To format a document in visual studio the key combination is: ctrl-k ctrl-d
just FYI in eclipse it's: ctrl-a -> ctrl-i
not shift-a -> shift-i
I'm sure I'm the only one that actually tried that in eclipse.
I can go to a specific line number by double clicking in the status bar in Visual Studio. Is there a keyboard shortcut that does the same thing?
Ctrl + G
Check out all the keyboard shortcuts at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e5f902a8-5bb5-4cc6-907e-472809749973&displaylang=en
Ctrl + G works for me.
If it doesn't work for you, you can always map whatever shortcut you want under Tools | Options | Environment | Keyboard.
EDIT: Yes, as #Brian mentions, the command in this case is Edit.GoTo
I just realised that the default in C# settings for this command is Ctrl + G, whereas in VB Settings, there is no default keyboard short - it's mapped to show the immediate window - strange I think. I swapped the mappings so that the two environment behave the same.
Every IDE or even text editor I have ever used either uses Ctrl + L or Ctrl + G for this purpose.
I assume this could stand for Ctrl + Line or Ctrl + Goto
Yep Ctrl + G.
From this answer you can get a nice Shortcut poster.