Text Editor Options for indenting, new line rules etc. Brace completion is Productivity Power Tools options.
|-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss |Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 3:20 PM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: RE: does anyone know a good technique to keep track of your braces in |C#? | |Oh okay. That makes sense. And just so I know. Tell me again how to allow |Visual Studio 2012 to auto-insert the closing braces and other things in pairs. It's |with the Power Tools Extension, right? I was looking at that, though I couldn't |seem to find that particular set of options, for that would certainly make my life |easier. | | | |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Richards |Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:42 PM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: Re: does anyone know a good technique to keep track of your braces in |C#? | | | |They don't quite go anywhere you want. They can go in far more places than are |actually necessary but let not worry about that for now. You have a set for the |namespace. You have a set for each method or property in that namespace. You |have a set for any compound statements. You have a set for any array |initialisation. I've probably forgotten some cases at the moment but that's |probably 99% of cases there. You can also, for example, put them in case |statements within a switch (oh yeah, switch statements have them as well) but |the break statement makes them superfluous. Although it would probably make |them more consistent. | | | |Hmm, it's entirely possible I'm not understanding what you're saying. | | | | |David | |"If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of |cards... checkmate!" | -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama | | | |On 14 February 2013 13:33, Katherine Moss <katherine.m...@gordon.edu> |wrote: | |Please correct me if I am wrong on this. You're telling me that braces are free for |the programmer to place them where they want in C#? I know that in most of |the demos I have from books, there are always braces in particular places every |time with no fail. Is this a C# convention, or is this a standard that Wily is using? |For instance: | |Namespace Demo | |{ | |Static void main(string [] args) | |} | |{ | |Console.WriteLine("this is a demo"); | |Console.ReadKey(); | |} | |} | |} | |Or something like that. I'm not sure since I don't have the file open in front of |me, but are you saying that is just a chosen way of writing it and that people are |relatively free with braces? And about other languages. I chose C# because it |offers the power of C++ without the complexity. And I plan to learn F# as well |one of these days, though isn't that more of a math language for calculation |programs and such like that? But thanks to Roslyn, I can learn easier with C# |interactive. And I don't use VB for moral reasons. No offense to those on this list |who love it, but isn't it kind of the malware author's language? | |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Richards |Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 7:50 PM | |
