Visual Studio 2010 Editor Question

Can anyone help me figure out how to get the code editor to automatically close brackets, parenthesis, and quotation marks for me?

In Dreamweaver and Expression Studio whenever I type an opening tag the editor automatically closes it for me and places the cursor in the middle.  Example:

<p> <-- typed
</p> <--- Editor generated immediately

I'm a bit forgetful and find myself forgetting to close my brackets alot.  What I'd like the editor to do is:

public newMethod()
{ <------ Typed

} <------ Editor Generated

Anyone know how to set this up?

You need to look up the "Visual Studio Extension manager".  You will find it in your menu's under Tools/ Extension manger.

You can access the online gallery from here along with manage your existing items if you have any installed.  The "Productivity Tools" is one of many you probably want.

lensman,

Thank you.  This extension did exactly what I'm looking for.

This is weird, Visual Studio does that already without any plugins.

2 hours ago,ZippyV wrote

This is weird, Visual Studio does that already without any plugins.

I just tried it, and it doesn't do it unless I have the Productivity Power Tools. That's odd; I could have sworn it did it on a vanilla install.

I'm absolutely sure it doesn't do that and never has; it's the reason I always end up with duplicate } when I'm using Eclipse because VS has trained me to type them manually.

@Sven Groot: I'm not very familiar with the curly brace languages but the closing html tags are automatically added.

In the curly brace languages the only thing you get for free is Intellisense (which still sucks quite a lot in C/C++) and whitespace. You have do all of the rest of the typing yourself.

3 days ago,Sven Groot wrote

I'm absolutely sure it doesn't do that and never has; it's the reason I always end up with duplicate } when I'm using Eclipse because VS has trained me to type them manually.

I vaguely remember having this same kind of issue last year. I went several months using Eclipse exclusively, and at some point prior to getting back into .NET development in VS2010, I must have installed the Productivity Power Tools. Now I don't even remember what is like before.

I am reminded of that scene in Star Trek where Scotty is showing that hapless engineer how to create transparent aluminum, Trying to talk to that crappy little mac computer.

It of course is not responding, and is presented with a mouse as the way to command the things what to do....

"Oh..... How quaint...."