I was at an MSDN event yesterday and the presenter enabled a setting in VS2005 that would automatically add a pair of quotes "" whenever the context was expecting it.
I have looked in my options of VS2005 standard and I can't find an options which does this.
I have found options which purports to automagically add braces {} when a new line is typed I.E.
class MyClass
{ <these added when new line (enter key) typed.
}
However my system doesn't do this.
Is there a master setting somewhere that enables these enhancements
Thanks
Edwin
automagically adding "" {} () [] etc...
kuponutcom
sorcer1
Edwin -
Other than you, we've heard significant feedback that users want this feature. It's something that we're definitely trying to do and hope to see in a release as soon as possible. :)
Thanks!
Karen
Jangu
Hi, Edwin.
You're right. Some Visual Studio 2005 editors automatically insert matching quotation marks and such. For example, you can toggle the XML editor's automatic insertion of attribute quotation marks (and other things) by navigating to Tools | Options... | Text Editor | XML | Miscellaneous. The HTML editor has some similar options.
The C# editor, however, does not offer automatic insertion of tokens like "" {} () [].
Hope that helps,
Damon
Microsoft Visual C#
Chester R
Yes. Thank you. I didn't realize the different language editors behaved differently. I saw it and I thought it was cool but I couldn't get it to work.
Edwin
Jocker23
Ironically I learned about an intellisense feature at a MS event too. It was the property template or prop. Type in prop, then type the tab key twice and a property field template is layed down for the user...if you don't use that one try it.
Boulderdude
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