Go to Matching Brace in Visual Studio?

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thepocketwade picture thepocketwade · Oct 1, 2009 · Viewed 172.4k times · Source

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 "If/End If")

Answer

Tim Santeford picture Tim Santeford · Oct 1, 2009

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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