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How Do You Turn On Parenthesis Matching in Visual Studio 2005?

This is relevant to programming because there's lots of open/close parens... and paren-matching speeds things up a lot.

+2  A: 

For me Visual Studio (2008) does this automatically for C#, but not for C++.

To get paren matching in C++ I have to have Visual Assist enabled.

Michael Burr
+1  A: 

Invoking the following keyboard shortcut on the starting or closing parenthesis should jump to the matching one:

Ctrl-]

If they are unmatched you should be able to spot this pretty quickly.

I didn't have to enable anything in VS2005 to use this functionality.

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