My Visual Studio snippets

re: My Visual Studio snippets

René Gundersen — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:24:01 GMT

Nice article. I completely agree, snippets are very valuable. I would, however, recommend downloading Snippet Designer for Visual Studio. You can find it in the extension gallery. It really makes it alot easier to create snippets, as you don't have to mess with the XML.

re: My Visual Studio snippets

Shawn Burke - MSFT — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:19:47 GMT

Hi,

Sure, good question.

Snippets work by typing the shortcut, which you will see in Intellisense. When you select it by hitting Enter, you'll be able to fill in the various fields.

Visual Studio has a bunch of standard snippets. Try typing "prop" for example, to create a standard property.

In the case of these custom ones, the short cuts are inpc_impl, inpc_prop, propdpsl, etc, as noted after the description.

Hope that helps,

Shawn

re: My Visual Studio snippets

Beginner — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:42:17 GMT

I am unsure if i understoöd your article. If i am not mistaken a snippet is bit of code which can be defined by using xml and can be inserted into the code by somehow loading it.

Could you elaborate on how to fire up / activating a snippet?

Thanks a lot