Additional Code Snippets for C# in Visual Studio 2005
February 22, 2006 Microsoft, Programming, Visual Studio No CommentsFor those of you unfamiliar with Code Snippets, a new feature in Visual Studio 2005, MSDN describes code snippets as:
“IntelliSense Code Snippets are reusable, task-oriented blocks of code. Visual Studio 2005 includes code snippets covering tasks ranging from creating a custom exception, to sending an e-mail message, to drawing a circle. A set of Visual Basic and Visual C# Code Snippets are included in the Visual Studio 2005 box.”
However, C# programmers were not given the complete set of Code Snippets available to our VB Compadres.
Microsoft has now corrected this issue.
Task Based Code Snippets for C# are now available from MSDN, giving C# developers the complete list of snippets available in Visual Basic. However, the installation of these snippets is a bit cumbersome.
To relieve this problem, Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has created a registry file that will greatly simplify installation of these snippets.
Grab the new snippets or the simplified registry installer below:
You only need one of the packages above. I highly recommend Jeff Atwood’s package.
Dave