I always find myself needing to enclose a block of code in curly braces { }, but unfortunately that isn\'t included in the C# surround code snippets, which
Make your own custom code snippet for doing that.
You can use snippy to create your own http://blogs.msdn.com/gusperez/articles/93681.aspx
or just use an XML editor to create one.
Put the file in My Documents\Visual Studio XXXX\Code Snippets\C#\My Code Snippets