Curly braces autocomplete in Visual Studio 2012

Question

Just migrated from vs10 to vs12 and it seems like the curly braces is completely broken along side with some other features like indentation in C# (?) for example type:

Answer 1

Productivity Power Tools for 2012 are available now which has auto-brace completion, OP was almost definitely using the 2010 version.

Productivity Power Tools for 2013

If you haven't used it before, you can turn on/off pretty much every feature it adds in options>productivity power tools.

Answer 2

Here's the code to create Auto Complete Brackets for RichTextBox using C#.

using System;  
using System.Collections.Generic;  
using System.ComponentModel;  
using System.Data;  
using System.Drawing;  
using System.Windows.Forms;  

namespace Auto_Complete_Brackets  
{  
    public partial class Form1 : Form  
    {  
        public Form1()  
        {  
            InitializeComponent();  
        }  

        //declare  isCurslyBracesKeyPressed variable as Boolean and assign false value  
        //to check { key is pressed or not  
        public static Boolean isCurslyBracesKeyPressed = false;  

        //richTextBox1 KeyPress events  

        // if key (,{,<,",',[ is pressed then insert opposite key to richTextBox1 at Position SelectionStart+1  
        // add one line after inserting, e.Handled=true;  
        //finally set SelectionStart to specified position  

        private void richTextBox1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)  
        {  
            String s = e.KeyChar.ToString();  
            int sel = richTextBox1.SelectionStart;  
            if (checkBox1.Checked == true)  
            {  
                switch (s)  
                {  
                    case "(": richTextBox1.Text = richTextBox1.Text.Insert(sel, "()");  
                        e.Handled = true;  
                        richTextBox1.SelectionStart = sel + 1;  
                        break;  

                    case "{":  
                        String t = "{}";  
                        richTextBox1.Text = richTextBox1.Text.Insert(sel, t);  
                        e.Handled = true;  
                        richTextBox1.SelectionStart = sel + t.Length - 1;  
                        isCurslyBracesKeyPressed = true;  
                        break;  

                    case "[": richTextBox1.Text = richTextBox1.Text.Insert(sel, "[]");  
                        e.Handled = true;  
                        richTextBox1.SelectionStart = sel + 1;  
                        break;  

                    case "<": richTextBox1.Text = richTextBox1.Text.Insert(sel, "<>");  
                        e.Handled = true;  
                        richTextBox1.SelectionStart = sel + 1;  
                        break;  

                    case "\"": richTextBox1.Text = richTextBox1.Text.Insert(sel, "\"\"");  
                        e.Handled = true;  
                        richTextBox1.SelectionStart = sel + 1;  
                        break;  

                    case "'": richTextBox1.Text = richTextBox1.Text.Insert(sel, "''");  
                        e.Handled = true;  
                        richTextBox1.SelectionStart = sel + 1;  
                        break;  
                }  
            }  
        }  


        // richTextBox1 Key Down event  
        /* 
         * when key  {  is pressed and {} is inserted in richTextBox 
         * and isCurslyBracesKeyPressed is true then insert some blank text to richTextBox1 
         * when Enter key is down 
         * it will look like this when Enter key is down 

             { 
                   | 
             }         

         * */  

        private void richTextBox1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)  
        {  
            int sel = richTextBox1.SelectionStart;  
            if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter)  
            {  
                if(isCurslyBracesKeyPressed==true)  
                {  
                    richTextBox1.Text = richTextBox1.Text.Insert(sel, "\n          \n");  
                    e.Handled = true;  
                    richTextBox1.SelectionStart = sel + "          ".Length;  
                    isCurslyBracesKeyPressed = false;  
                }  
            }  
        }  
    }  
}  

Answer 3

Visual Studio 2010 doesn't do that by default (at least not in my case). Are you sure you weren't using an extension like Productivity Power Tools

This one supports VS2012: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/0e33cb22-d4ac-4f5a-902f-aff5177cc94d

Answer 4

If anyone is having this issue with VS 2013, there is a setting for this now. I just reset my VS settings and it started to complete my braces again. For me, it wasn't productivity power tools. You can turn it on/off here: