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.
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.
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:
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 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.
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).
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.
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
