Martin Normark's blog » Visual Studio http://martinnormark.com Tue, 15 May 2012 21:06:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Optimizing Code Snippets http://martinnormark.com/optimizing-code-snippets?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://martinnormark.com/optimizing-code-snippets#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:06:00 +0000 Martin Normark /post/Optimizing-Code-Snippets.aspx Continue reading →

]]> Code Snippets are a great productivity boost that was introduced in Visual Studio 2005, if I remember right. Code Snippets lets you type a shortcut for a piece of code. I use snippets for properties a lot. I hate writing properties "by hand" - it is much faster with Code Snippets. But since Visual Studio 2008, the default prop shortcut now uses Dynamic Properties - but I still work on some projects that does not support Dynamic Properties. So I changed my default Code Snippets, and added a few other.

First I changed the default prop snippet back to the old property with a backing field. Then I added snippets for a Dynamic Property, Business Object Property (to use with Rockford Lhotka's CSLA architecture) and a ViewState Property. See the code they all produce here:

image This boosts productivity even more, and it is a great way to get rid of those lame things you do over and over again...

Download the snippets yourself bellow. Add them to your C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC#\Snippets\1033\Visual C# directory, and replace the prop.snippet file when it prompts you.

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