by robotix1986
19. July 2009 11:44
So just some time back I got thinking... everytime I start reading mails in the C# discussion alias at my company or Eric Lippert's explanations in them... the first thing I do is open up my very extensively used Console Application project in Visual Studio, comment out the existing main function for future reference and start writing a new one... and it is kind of a pain to do this.. so I thought that it's time to get it automated.. so I wrote a snippet to do that for me.
Below is the code for that: -
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<?
xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
<CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
<Header>
<Title>mainfn</Title>
<Shortcut>mainfn</Shortcut>
<Description>Code snippet for 'Main' function</Description>
<Author>Alvaro Rahul Dias</Author>
<SnippetTypes>
<SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
<SnippetType>SurroundsWith</SnippetType>
</SnippetTypes>
</Header>
<Snippet>
<Declarations>
<Literal>
<ID>expression</ID>
<ToolTip>Code in main method</ToolTip>
<Default>Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");</Default>
</Literal>
</Declarations>
<Code Language="csharp"><![CDATA[ public class MyClass
{
public static void Main()
{
$expression$
$selected$ $end$
}
}]]>
</Code>
</Snippet>
</CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets> |
Most of the fields above are self explanatory. I'll explain a few important ones.
The <Shortcut> tag specifies what you need to type in VS to use this snippet.
<SnippetTypes> - where you can use this snippet, Expansion, Surround With or both.
<Code Language="csharp"> - the actual code to be inserted
Interesting thing to note is that all the variable items are marked with $ signs. The $selected$ attribute signifies where the selected code should go in case you use this code as a sorround with snippet.
The $end$ attribute signifies where the cursor should go once you're finished with the snippet.
Hope the above helps in your coding adventures.
Regards,
AlD
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