Visual Studio Update: Automatically Close Brackets and Quotes

Have you ever needed to add quotes around a piece of text? Or maybe you needed to add some type of bracket around a piece of code. In version 17.9 of Visual Studio 2022, surrounding text with brackets or quotes just became a LOT easier. Let's look at how to enable this feature.
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[@jaa928]

Quick, easy, and productive. Thank you, Tim!

[@IAmTimCorey]

You're welcome!

[@andergarcia1115]

Thank you, Master, for the valuable effort you put into each video. I also wanted to say that the development pass is a great initiative, and I believe it will be a success. I read the email I received in my inbox, and it addressed one of my questions: how you combat piracy. This was very helpful information.

[@IAmTimCorey]

Thanks for sharing!

[@squimball]

Nice. I can see this auto-backet completion being a lot more useful than the other ones. I hate it when closing brackets appear out of nowhere (I always turn it off), but this one makes sense and I can see me using it. Thanks for the tip.

[@IAmTimCorey]

You are welcome.

[@UmanPC]

Great feature. Tnx a lot Tim

[@IAmTimCorey]

You are welcome.

[@JayVeeDee]

my god, this was one my huge pet peeves with visual studio coming from jet brains and it's finally been added! Good stuff

[@IAmTimCorey]

👍

[@navid.jfrzadeh6074]

Nice these shortcuts are very useful 👍

[@IAmTimCorey]

Great!

[@c130daddy]

excellent. thanks!

[@IAmTimCorey]

You are welcome.

[@evangreavu9621]

Another cute feature

[@dasfahrer8187]

So useful!

[@IAmTimCorey]

Glad you think so!

[@MouhamedSaleemAlZayat]

I like this feature.. 👌🏻

[@IAmTimCorey]

Great!

[@trevordennis]

Thanks! This new feature actually looks very useful. The most annoying thing I always turn off is the auto matching quote or parenthesis that Visual Studio was putting in as you type. That one just slows me down since the cursor almost always ends up in the wrong place and I have to move it back inside the parenthesis to finish typing the statement. Easier to just typing the end characters manually.

[@IAmTimCorey]

You are welcome.

[@holger_p]

There is always something cute to discover.

[@IAmTimCorey]

👍

[@BigBassti]

Hi Tim, hi Chat! What are your greatest productivity features in visual studio c#? My favorites so far are Strg+K+D (Code Alignment), prop+tab+tab (simple property definition), propfull+tab+tab (full context property definition), if+tab+tab (If-cluase) and else+tab+tab (else-clause).

[@IAmTimCorey]

I'm going to be releasing a video soon on the way I configure Visual Studio, which will include a lot of the tweaks I use.

[@CRBarchager]

This will help alot. I'm getting tired of having to mark code, CTRL-X, { } and CTRL-V between the brackets :D

[@IAmTimCorey]

Agreed.

[@user-cl5cl4ec8h]

It is also in JetBrains Rider.

[@IAmTimCorey]

Great!

[@guiorgy]

I wish you had touched on double quotes inside a double quoted string literal. Will that work (i.e. will it be properly escaped)? What about a @ string literal, or multiline (""") string literal? I hope that works, but even without it, it's a great feature. I'll try it out later

[@IAmTimCorey]

It puts double quotes (if that is what you choose) around anything you've selected.

[@guiorgy]

@@IAmTimCorey I've tried and you are correct. I was hoping it would understand that the selection is inside a string literal and escaped the inserted quotes, i.e. inserted \" instead of just ". Still a nice feature though, I've enabled it.

[@navarone77]

A feature VSCode already had. . Great job M$ft lol

[@IAmTimCorey]

VS Code and Visual Studio are two totally different products, written in two different languages, by two different teams, and are two different types of systems (editor vs IDE).

[@404-UsernameNotFound]

It's about time. VSCode has had this feature for years.

[@IAmTimCorey]

Yep, but since the two products are totally unrelated, they don't have a shared feature system.

[@JohnSmith-yr7ih]

Tim, please make a full course of 'aspNet identity' with wasm and new 'Blazor app' template, show the difference, if any. there a many videos of 'identity' but all of them are just overview

[@IAmTimCorey]

Thanks for the suggestion. Please add it to the list on the suggestion site so others can vote on it as well: suggestions.iamtimcorey.com/

[@fsofrizzy5088]

One of my favorite features from VS Code. Always found it annoying this wasn’t a feature since I’ve been learning C#/Visual Studio.

[@IAmTimCorey]

Great!

[@darkeldarspire]

For me its more about exiting the brackets. Arrows are far from the letters on the keyboard.

[@IAmTimCorey]

Yep, that is something I wish were more easily streamlined.

[@pxnchx93]

I'm surprised they added this so late 🤔

[@IAmTimCorey]

They've played around with different ways of doing similar things, but I agree.

[@devliren]

Lol😂

[@LokiDaFerret]

I would much prefer they fix the plethora of bugs versus this new feature.

[@IAmTimCorey]

Every update does come with bug fixes. LOTS of them. But that doesn't mean there shouldn't be feature improvements as well.

[@LokiDaFerret]

@@IAmTimCorey they broke search in the 2022 upgrade. It's been broken since the first revision. Web deployment Will also crash if you close the publish window before it is done. When they fix these I will be happy. But until then I will go and close everything I can see within single quotes double quotes square brackets round brackets and curly brackets. 😁