Predefined 'Surround With' Templates

ReSharper comes with a number of predefined 'Surround With' Templates. You can use them as is or customize them to best suit your programming needs and your programming style (for details see Managing and Sharing 'Surround With' Templates).

Some templates are parametrized, requiring that you fill in some parameters (variables) after the template code is inserted. Please see this pictorial for a graphic illustration of the process.

Click a template's name in the list below to go to its description:

if
while
for
do..while
lock
#region
{}
try..catch
try..finally
cast
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String.Format

Name	Specification
if	Allows to place the selected code inside a conditional execution block. Consider the following code: Selecting the code, pressing Ctrl + Alt + J and choosing if template yields: The caret is positioned so that you can immediately start typing the logical condition providing execution of the surrounded code.
while	Places the selected code inside a `while` loop. The behavior mirrors that of if template with straightforward substitutions of `while` in place of `if`.
for	Places the selected code inside a `for` loop. The behavior mirrors that of if template with straightforward substitutions of `for` in place of `if`.
do..while	Places the selected code inside a `do..while` loop. Surrounding the same code example as in the description of if template yields:
lock	Places the selected code inside a mutually exclusive execution block (`C#` `lock` statement). The behavior mirrors that of if template with straightforward substitutions of `lock` in place of `if`.
#region	Marks the selected code as a `C#` region. Places the caret so that you can immediately start typing a preprocessor message for the new region. Surrounding the same code example as in the description of if template yields:
{}	Converts the selected code into a `C#` compound statement by surrounding it with curly braces `{}`.
try..catch	Places the selected code into a `try..catch` block. See detailed example here.
try..finally	Places the selected code into a `try..finally` block. The caret is placed inside the finally block. Surrounding the same code example as in the description of if template yields:
cast	Consider the following code example: Clearly, the variable `myObject` should be cast to `ArrayList` class. In order to achieve this, in the editor select the expression to be cast (in this case just the `myObject` variable, but the expression may be as complex as you like), press Ctrl + Alt + J, and finally choose cast template. The code is transformed as follows: The caret is conveniently positioned so that you can immediately start typing the desired type name.
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Predefined 'Surround With' Templates

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