Go to Matching Brace in Visual Studio

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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  quot If End If quot

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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

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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

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On a Spanish keyboard it is CTRL       or CTRL

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On a German keyboard it s Ctrl

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On a Hungarian keyboard it is Ctrl

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On my Slovenian keyboard it is ALT nbsp  nbsp  nbsp

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On the Swiss-French keyboard   use CTRL   SHIFT

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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

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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

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Note  It also works for  if    elif    endif matching  The caret must be on the

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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

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On my Dutch  Belgian  keyboard  it s CTRL

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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 nbsp  nbsp  nbsp       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

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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

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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

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On a German keyboard it s ctrl shift

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On a Turkish keyboard  it is Ctrl

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On my Danish keyboard it s CTRL

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Use CTRL     to switch between them  Place the cursor at one of the braces when using it

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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

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For completeness sake  on a Swedish keyboard it s  CTRL           Also  I guess logical  but worth mentioning  CTRL    shift         for capital      selects everything inside the braces and goes to the matching one

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On my pt-BR  Brazilian Portuguese  keyboard it is actually CTRL

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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

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On my Italian keyboard  it s CTRL

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On my French keyboard  it s CTRL

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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

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And Ctrl   Shift     will select all of the text

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