Visual Studio - Is there a shortcut to insert parentheses around a selection?

Question

I am playing with Atom and I really like how I can select an expression and press Shift+9 to insert ( and ) outside it. This is convenient

Answer 1

You should check out a third party add-in like Resharper. They bundle a such abilities.

Resharper

There is another method noted by @Igor Zevaka.

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

This allows you to create a snippet, and use a shortcut to use it.

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

To Install:

Save the code as SurroundWithBraces.snippet into "\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

  
    

      
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