Making Visual Studio Show Sections of Code?

[Mobius1]

Hi,

Is it possible to visually show the space for open and closing brackets {}?

I am looking for something to make Visual Studio show and match the opening and closing brackets something to the tune of this

while(something > somethingElse)
{
|  thisDoesThat;
|  thatDoesThis;
|  somethingOrOther;
|  randomStuff;
|  
|  if(stuffHappens)
|  {
|  | doThat;
|  | andThis;
|  | alsoThis;
|  }
|
|
}

Basically something that will help me visually separate which sections are linked together with {}

[andywestken]

Is it possible to visually show the space for open and closing brackets {}?

There's nothing built into Visual Studio, but there is this addon (and might be others.)

AllMargins 2012
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/43bc4a3a-0182-4c36-8159-a0a4cdfd04bd

The catch is that while this addon is free, you can only use it (or any other addon) with a retail version of Visual Studio. If you're using the Express version, then you're out of luck.

Andy

[cire]

In VS, if you put the cursor immediately before any bracket, it will highlight that bracket and the matching bracket. That also works for parentheses.

[mutexe]

This is completely overkill and will make the code look horrible, but you could use the region stuff if you really wanted to be able to collapse/expand code sections:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b6xkz944.aspx