Code snippet is a ready made few lines of code, which is ready to insert into your code. Say you want to add a property to your class in C#. Type prop and press tab key twice, you will have a property inserted in your class which is waiting to be modified according to your requirement.
C# code snippets make day to day life of a C# programmer is very easy.
How to use code snippets?
Here is the link to default code snippets supported in Visual Studio: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z41h7fat.aspx
How to create a code snippet?
Steps to create your own method snippet is as follows.
1. Create a new text file and name it as method.snippet
2. Copy and paste the following code in to the method.snippet file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet"> <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0"> <Header> <Title>method</Title> <Shortcut>method</Shortcut> <Description>Code snippet for method</Description> <SnippetTypes> <SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType> </SnippetTypes> </Header> <Snippet> <Declarations> <Literal> <ID>methodname</ID> <ToolTip>Method name</ToolTip> <Function>MethodName()</Function> <Default>MethodNamePlaceholder</Default> </Literal> </Declarations> <Code Language="csharp"><![CDATA[public void $methodname$ () { $end$ }]]> </Code> </Snippet> </CodeSnippet> </CodeSnippets>
3. Copy your file into visual studio’s snippet folder.
My snippets folder located at : C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC#\Snippets\1033\Visual C#
4. Restart visual studio if you have already running it.
5. Open visual studio C# class and type method and press tab key twice.
6. You will see a method created as follows
public void MethodNamePlaceholder() { }
7. Go ahead and change your method as you want.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/19247785/778101
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165394.aspx
have fun with code snippets!
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