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The Smart Semicolon extension

The Smart Semicolon extension - Visual Studio Tutorial

From the course: Visual Studio Developer Tips

The Smart Semicolon extension

- [Narrator] I have a rocky relationship with the semicolon operator in C Sharp. I know it needs to go at the end of a code line, but sometimes I forget. It's not a lot of effort to fix. Get the cursor to the end of the line and add the semicolon. It's a minor frustration. This tip looks at a simple yet useful extension that has changed the way I work with the semicolon. You can see it here in the browser. It's called the Smart Semicolon. Here's how to add it to Visual Studio. It's like any other extension. Go to Tools, Extensions and Updates, search online. This is the one we're looking for. Click Download. That will launch the browser and download this file shown at the bottom of the screen, this vsix file. That's the Visual Studio extension. You'll need to shut down Visual Studio, run this extension installer, and then restart Visual Studio. I know you know how to do that, so I won't show you those steps. Let's take a look at how this extension works. I'll start by moving to line…

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