Any way to surround code block with Curly Braces {} in VS2008?

Question

I always find myself needing to enclose a block of code in curly braces { }, but unfortunately that isn't included in the C# surround code snippets, which seems to be an oversight. I couldn't find anything on building your own surround snippets either (just other kinds of snippets).

I am actually running Resharper too, but it doesn't seem to have this functionality either (or I haven't figured how to activate it).

We have a coding standard of including even a single line of code after an if or else in curly braces, so if I could just make Resharper do that refactoring automatically that would be even better!

Answer 1

Here is a quick and dirty snippet to do just that.

To Install:

Save the code as SurroundWithBraces.snippet into "<my documents>\Visual Studio Version\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets"

To use:

Select block of text.
Press Ctrl+K, Ctrl+S
Chose My Code Snippets, braces

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <CodeSnippets  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">   <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">     <Header>       <Title>braces</Title>       <Shortcut>braces</Shortcut>       <Description>Code snippet to surround a block of code with braces</Description>       <Author>Igor Zevaka</Author>       <SnippetTypes>         <SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>         <SnippetType>SurroundsWith</SnippetType>       </SnippetTypes>     </Header>     <Snippet>       <Code Language="csharp">         <![CDATA[{         $selected$ $end$      }]]>       </Code>     </Snippet>   </CodeSnippet> </CodeSnippets>