Visual Studio 2010 Formatting

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Visual Studio 2010 Formatting

I have plenty of experience with Eclipse, and now I'm trying out Visual Studio 2010. I find its formatting somewhat counter-intuitive. Here are some things I'm trying to figure out:

Is there a way to select all text and format/indent it properly, like SHIFT+A SHIFT+I in Eclipse?
Why is it that when I type a line like if (n == 0) {, as soon as I type the opening brace, the text cursor is moved to the beginning of the line? Is this some productivity speedup I'm failing to see?
When I hit ENTER after the aforementioned line, I'd like the closing brace to be put in place automatically for me. How can I do this?

I've looked for hotkey documentation, and it's helped a bit, but this still feels clunky to me.

To format a document in visual studio the key combination is: ctrl-k ctrl-d

John Boker 2010-01-31 02:19:24

I try that, and it says "The key combination (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D) is bound to command (Format Document) which is not currently available."

Rosarch 2010-01-31 02:30:38

+1 A:

The formatting commands are by default bound to Ctrl+K Ctrl+??. Ctrl+K as the first keystoke, followed by another key stroke that determines the specific formatting option.

Look at the Advanced submenu of the Edit menu. It will show you that

"format selection" is Ctrl+k Ctrl+f
"comment selection" is Ctrl+k Ctrl+c

John Knoeller 2010-01-31 02:23:51

Wait, what? I have a default install of VS2010 and mine are: CTRL-E, CTRL-D to format the whole document, CTRL-E, CTRL-F to format selection, CTRL-E, CTRL-C to comment, and CTRL-E, CTRL-U to uncomment. They are the same in VS2008 as well?

Matt Olenik 2010-01-31 02:31:54

Oh, !@#%. I think it depends on some questions you are answer the first time you run the app. I forgot about that... <sigh>

John Knoeller 2010-01-31 02:35:10

The first time I ran it, I chose C#, and it says "The key combination (Ctrl+E, Ctrl+D) is not a command."

Rosarch 2010-01-31 02:53:43

@Rosharch: I chose C++

John Knoeller 2010-01-31 02:54:45

So... how can I change those initial settings? And I'll be spending more time with C# than C, so I'd rather leave it on that as the default.

Rosarch 2010-01-31 02:57:45

_Customize_ on the _Tools_ menu lets you change the key bindings however you want. I think you can even setup differnt bindings for C# than what you use for C++ if you want.

John Knoeller 2010-01-31 03:02:33

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