Is there a setting in Visual Studio 2008 that I can turn on which would generate a matching closing brace for a opening brace?
EDIT: I would imagine that an IDE as p
Most of the time, you can use autocompletion and code snippets.
If you want to write a for loop, just type "for" and then TAB. VS will complete it (including the braces).
Same thing for if, struct, class, switch... You don't even have to type the first brace !!
Good paper about it here : https://web.archive.org/web/1/http://blogs.techrepublic%2ecom%2ecom/programming-and-development/?p=655