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Jim McKeeth
Jim McKeeth

Reputation: 38703

Any way to surround code block with Curly Braces {} in VS2008?

I always find myself needing to enclose a block of code in curly braces { }, but unfortunately that isn't included in the C# surround code snippets, which seems to be an oversight. I couldn't find anything on building your own surround snippets either (just other kinds of snippets).

I am actually running Resharper too, but it doesn't seem to have this functionality either (or I haven't figured how to activate it).

We have a coding standard of including even a single line of code after an if or else in curly braces, so if I could just make Resharper do that refactoring automatically that would be even better!

Upvotes: 46

Views: 18370

Answers (9)

Adnan
Adnan

Reputation: 957

For new comers in 2022,

Until this extension is available in the market, you have to clone the repo, build it and install it.

source

Upvotes: 0

Serge
Serge

Reputation: 1067

In VS2015 there is an experimental feature that supports it by selecting the text and typing in }.

See here how to enable.

Upvotes: 3

TheLukeMcCarthy
TheLukeMcCarthy

Reputation: 2283

You can wrap a code block with braces by

  1. Highlight the code block
  2. Ctrl e -> Ctrl u
  3. select option 7

I know this is an old question but I hope it helps someone

Ref: Wrapping multiple statements in braces

Upvotes: -1

Jimmy
Jimmy

Reputation: 91432

How about:

Ctrl-X, {, Ctrl-V, }

You could even bind that to a macro.

Upvotes: 22

Shomron
Shomron

Reputation: 451

To complete Ray Vega's answer, for those using Resharper, I figured out you can associate a shortcut to Resharper commands.

Just do the following (I am using VS 2010):

go to Tools->Options

In the listbox, extend Environment and click on Keyboard.

In the field under "Show commands containing:" enter "resharper.resharper_surroundwith"

In the field under "Press shortcut keys" enter your shortcut (eg: I choose Ctrl+R,Ctrl+S) and click Assign and then Ok.

That's it. you can select your code, and type that shorcut to view all Resharper SurroundWith commands. Just enter 7 to put braces.

Upvotes: 1

Ray
Ray

Reputation: 192186

In ReSharper 4.5, curly braces are included as one of the built-in 'Surround Templates':

  1. Select the text that you want curly braces around.

  2. ReSharper -> Code -> Surround With... -> {}

    or

    ALT + R -> C -> S -> 7

    or

    Ctrl+E, U -> 7 (Visual Studio scheme)

    or

    Ctrl+Alt+J -> 7 (ReSharper 2.x/IDEA scheme)

Upvotes: 38

Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 8674

Edit: This turns out to be part of DxCore, from DevExpress. Leaving here so others notice, but basically I was wrong wrong wrong. To make this particular menu go away you disable it in the 'add ins' dialog; unloading devexpress from their own menu just unloads CodeRush/Refactor, not the base support libraries.

The is (not!) a built in way to do it. I don't know if you can bind a key to it or not. Also, this embed doesn't do anything if you only select one line, so it probably won't work right if your stuff is on one line after the "if".

  1. Select the block
  2. Right Click
  3. Choose "Embed Selection"
  4. Choose "Block {}"

Note: I have DexExpress installed, but this menu is there even when it isn't loaded, and I could swear it is there even when it isn't installed. However, if I am mistaken...

This honestly seems like something that would be best to ask r# for, a user contrib perhaps?

Upvotes: 0

Igor Zevaka
Igor Zevaka

Reputation: 76500

Here is a quick and dirty snippet to do just that.

To Install:

Save the code as SurroundWithBraces.snippet into "<my documents>\Visual Studio Version\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets"

To use:

Select block of text.
Press Ctrl+K, Ctrl+S
Chose My Code Snippets, braces 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CodeSnippets  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
  <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
    <Header>
      <Title>braces</Title>
      <Shortcut>braces</Shortcut>
      <Description>Code snippet to surround a block of code with braces</Description>
      <Author>Igor Zevaka</Author>
      <SnippetTypes>
        <SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
        <SnippetType>SurroundsWith</SnippetType>
      </SnippetTypes>
    </Header>
    <Snippet>
      <Code Language="csharp">
        <![CDATA[{
        $selected$ $end$
     }]]>
      </Code>
    </Snippet>
  </CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>

Upvotes: 52

helios456
helios456

Reputation: 1644

Make your own custom code snippet for doing that. You can use snippy to create your own http://blogs.msdn.com/gusperez/articles/93681.aspx or just use an XML editor to create one.

Put the file in My Documents\Visual Studio XXXX\Code Snippets\C#\My Code Snippets

Upvotes: 1

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