How do I turn off brace highlighing in Visual Studio

Question

In VS 2015 I\'m getting a weird brace highlighting effect. Using the Dark theme, I\'m getting a light gray box around the pair of braces, parens, or quotation marks when I p

Answer 1

1. Tools -> Options
2. Environment -> Fonts and Colors
3. Brace Matching: Set foreground and background to "Automatic".

No need to change Brace Matching (highlight) or Brace Matching (rectangle)