Delete Matching Braces in Visual Studio

Question

In Visual Studio I can jump from/to opening/closing brace with the Control+] shortcut.

Is there a shortcut that will allow me to delete both braces at o

Answer 1

It's not quite as simple as JaredPar suggested but I'm no Macro expert either.

This works for (), {} and []

Sub DeleteMatchingBrace()
    Dim sel As TextSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection
    Dim ap As VirtualPoint = sel.ActivePoint

    If (sel.Text() <> "") Then Exit Sub
    ' reposition
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.GoToBrace") : DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.GoToBrace") 

    If (ap.DisplayColumn <= ap.LineLength) Then sel.CharRight(True)

    Dim c As String = sel.Text
    Dim isRight As Boolean = False
    If (c <> "(" And c <> "[" And c <> "{") Then
        sel.CharLeft(True, 1 + IIf(c = "", 0, 1))
        c = sel.Text
        sel.CharRight()
        If (c <> ")" And c <> "]" And c <> "}") Then Exit Sub
        isRight = True
    End If

    Dim line = ap.Line
    Dim pos = ap.DisplayColumn
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.GoToBrace")
    If (isRight) Then sel.CharRight(True) Else sel.CharLeft(True)

    sel.Text = ""
    If (isRight And line = ap.Line) Then pos = pos - 1
    sel.MoveToDisplayColumn(line, pos)
    sel.CharLeft(True)
    sel.Text = ""
End Sub

Then add a shortcut to this macro in VS.