Keyboard shortcut for Jumping between "If/End If"

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I know it's simple to do in C#, but what is the command to jump between If/End If marks in VB.Net like you can jump between braces in C#?

(C#-version of this Question: Go to Matching Brace in Visual Studio?)

Hans, but the IDE knows the other parts of the block, since it highlights it when selecting one of them. — hometoast, Oct 26 '11 at 18:06

score 31 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 29 '14 at 20:45

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If you're using Visual Studio 2010, you can use Ctrl+Shift+Up and Ctrl+Shift+Down to jump between highlighted references and keywords.

Since these are If blocks, the IDE will highlight the Then keyword as well, so just tap Up/Down twice in rapid succession. Up/down wraps, so if you really want to save a keypress, hit the key in the "wrong" direction to get where you want.

edited Jun 29 '14 at 20:45

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answered Oct 25 '11 at 19:57

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Don't know if you could call it "brace matching" but it sure as heck gets the job done! Thanks! – hometoast Oct 26 '11 at 18:08
what about visual studio 2008 ? – Viku Jun 27 '13 at 11:38
Yeah, that won't help you here. I'm not sure what will help you here. – Jason Malinowski Jun 27 '13 at 17:15
@JasonMalinowski Hi Jason . Can you please help me to sort it out with vs 2008 . – Viku Oct 17 '13 at 07:18
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As I already said, I have no idea. Resharper or similar plugins may have a command, not sure. You should create a new question here for that. – Jason Malinowski Oct 19 '13 at 22:26
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Just a tip: if you were also looking to be able to find the end of a Select statement, it doesn't go from the Select to the End, it goes through each Case, so do a ++ once and it wraps around to the end! – VenerableAgents Sep 01 '16 at 15:31
I found that I had to enable this : Tools->Options->Text Editor->Basic->Advanced->Highlight related keywords under cursor. – Brain2000 Sep 06 '17 at 20:03
Also, ctrl+shift+up/down hops around in all other flow constructs besides IF/END IF: ie. Do, Select, et al – Doug Null Oct 01 '20 at 18:05

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 07 '21 at 06:15

As I saw else marked when my caret stood at an if (in PHP code),
https://google.com/search?q=jump+between+if+and+else+in+vscode brought me here,
and patching together various hints led me to the following commands,
bound in Visual Studio Code aka VSCode

@ Command Palette (⌘+⇧+P @ macOS)
Go to Previous Symbol Highlight
Go to Next Symbol Highlight

Reverse engineered default F7 / ⇧+F7 @ keybindings.json:

    {
        "key": "f7",
        "command": "editor.action.wordHighlight.next",
        "when": "editorTextFocus && hasWordHighlights"
    },
    {
        "key": "shift+f7",
        "command": "editor.action.wordHighlight.prev",
        "when": "editorTextFocus && hasWordHighlights"
    },

To fit the right hand over a numpad keyboard,
and having a lot of combinations bound to other commands,
my keybindings.json (syntax is .jsonc - JSON with Comments) adds:

    {
        "key": "ctrl+numpad_subtract",
        "command": "editor.action.wordHighlight.prev" // "Go to Previous Symbol Highlight"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+numpad_add",
        "command": "editor.action.wordHighlight.next" // "Go to Next Symbol Highlight"
    },

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 25 '11 at 18:42

I've resorted to putting the opening curly-bracket in a comment just after the THEN and a matching closing curly-bracket in a comment before the EndIf. This is a ghetto way of allowing VI to match the start/end of the block using % keystroke.

A more elegant way would be to use some sort of IDE that understands the block concept in the language you are editing. Sometimes this feature is called a "folding editor" as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_editor

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