Damn c# { }'s

[The Great Kazoo]

What I have been known to do: void SomeLongFunction { // many lines of code } // end void SomeLongFunction

[Adam P L]

No just use Resharper it does it for you.

[Member11140258]

In VS you can just use ctrl+'}' on one of the braces to toggle to what VS thinks is the match. This can be done for any open and close types, html tag or ( ) etc. VS2013 will add both for you by default as you type.

[DerekT P]

Is it just me... VS2013 automatically creates the closing bracket whenever I type an opening...?

[Alexander DiMauro]

RossMW wrote:

Do you have any tips on keeping these damn { } under control?

Yes, it's called ReSharper[^] I've been using it since 2009 and I have no idea how to use Visual Studio anymore without it.

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

[DumpsterJuice]

What was the setting name you changed to do that? Where there's smoke, there's a Blue Screen of death.

[Sascha Lefevre]

Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors > Brace Matching (Rectangle) Just overlooked it myself first on first try ;)

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

[patbob]

Find matching brace (most code editors have one) -- Visual Studio: ctrl-], Vi: % Use a smart editor that automatically adds, shows or otherwise assists in making sure you have balanced brackets. Consistent indentation. It also helps not to have large blocks of code, but sometimes that just can't be avoided. It is a pain sometimes, but I've just learned to live with it since the previous alternatives were much, much worse.

We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.

[DumpsterJuice]

Thanks for such a quick reply! > from Charlotte, NC, USA Where there's smoke, there's a Blue Screen of death.

[Lost User]

How long is on average one of your methods? A method shouldn't be longer than a screen, which makes around 50 lines of code. This will solve your braces problem immediately.

[fglenn]

I don't know about anyone else, but when I enter a '{', I also enter the corresponding '}' before I insert any code in between the braces. I never have a problem with unbalanced/misplaced braces.

Fletcher Glenn

[JRickey]

It does for me, also. I still have the default setup. Note that it also does that in text documents, when I don't want it to. And in code, typing the closing element can add an extra one (I think that happens if I use cursor keys to edit before closing).

[TNCaver]

Marc Clifton wrote:

Dang, doesn't the IDE (dimly, I'll grant) light up the matching braces?

Only when you put the cursor just after the } or just before the {. Not if the cursor is inside the block in question.

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.

[James Curran]

Obviously, you are using the god-forsaken "K&R" bracing style

if (condition) {
/// stuff
}

When you choose a coding style based on readability rather than historic fanboy popularity, these problems go away:

if (condition)
{
// Stuff
}

Truth, James

[User 4598947]

When there's too much nesting, and therefore too many braces, consider 1) refactor out inner nestings into new methods 2) label }'s:

namespace foo
{
public class bar
{
public void fu()
{
for(var int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
if(Math.PI != 0.0)
{

            } // if PI not 0

        } // for i

    } // fu

} // bar

} // foo

[Mark Miller]

Productivity Power Tools [^] includes Guidelines which are helpful. VSCommands [^] has a "Code Block End Tagger" that will show a "tag" on the closing brace either all the time or only when the opening brace is not in view.

Sincerely, -Mark mamiller@rhsnet.org

[Lost User]

FWIW In VS, set focus to a brace, CTRL_} finds the matching brace.

There are strangers on the Plain, Croaker

[brianriggan]

Indent Guides https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/e792686d-542b-474a-8c55-630980e72c30[^] It is a visual studio addin that will help you figure out which blocks belong together. The defaults look horrible but you can custimize them. I have each level of indentation a different color. This is one addin that I can't live without.

[nocturns2]

In Visual Studio, you can press Ctl-K & Ctl-D that will format your document. Same as pressing Edit>Advanced>Format Document. That will give you an indication of where the faulty area is, then, you can follow the {}'s via indention. Moving from VB to C#, for a while, I followed the convention of put in all the decorations first, before inserting code. What got me was how after a period of time using c#, coding vb, I felt like I was leaving stuff out, ... in particular the semi-colons.

[KP Lee]

You could always:

}//End of switch logic
}//End of if peter knows jane
}//End of while loop
}//Finally! end of dam program TG

Of course then you would have the never put comments in code police on your tail. Also, you'd have to pray your comments are relative to what has really ended. In case you are wondering, TG is the same as in TGIF.