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Code Snippets in Visual Studio.

Code snippets are readly –make snippets of code you can quickly insert into your code.

1-keyword shortcut :CTRL K+X.

2-Right click and select “Insert Snippet ..” from the context menu.

3-Click on Edit –intellisense –Insert Snippet.

4-Use code snippets short cut . For example to use “ for loop ”code snippet, type “for”and press TAB key twice.

Once a code snippet is inserted . the editable fields are highlighted n yellow , and the first editable Field is selected automatically. Upon changing the first editable field ,press TAB to move to the next editable field . To come to the previous editable field use SHIFT + TAB. Press ENTER or ESC keys to cancel filed editing and retrun the code editor to normal .

Code Snippet Types :

Expansion : these snippets allows the code snippet to be inserted at the cursor.

SurroundsWith : These snippets allows the code snippet to be placed around a selected place of code .

Refactoring : These snippets are used during code refracting

Surround –with Code Snippets

Surround –with snippets surrounds the selected code, with the code snippets code.

1-Select the code to surround, and use keyboard shortcut CTRL K+S.

2-Select the code to surround , right click and select “Surround with..” option from the context menu. 3-Select the code to surround, then click on Edit menu, select “IntelliSense” and then Select the “Surround with “ command.

Code snippets can be used with any type of applications that you create with visual studio . For example , you can use them with .

Console applications.

ASP.NET web applications ASP.

NET MVC applications Etc..

Code snippets are available for the following languages

1. C#

2. Visual Basic

3. XML

4. HTML

5. Jscript

6. SQL