Snippet in Visual Studio to create static method

Chris O'Sullivan

Jun 27, 2007 • 1 min read

After using Textmate for a couple of weeks I’ve come to realise how incredibly powerful and beautiful it is! Creating text snippets is a breeze – and improves productivity no end!

To achieve the same affect in Visual Studio though is a right pain in the butt-ocks. All I wanted to do was create a very basic snippet to define a static method (because I was creating a bunch of them all at the same time) and had to get down and dirty with some XML.

Anyhoo – here’s my result:


  
  
  
    Public Static Method Declaration
    pubs
    Code snippet for creating a static method
    Chris O'Sullivan
    
    Expansion
    
  
  
    
    
    return_type
    Return Type
    void
    
    
    method_name
    Method Name
    method
    
    
    param_type
    Param Type
    param_type
    
    
    param
    Name of Param
    param

Then you just type pubs[tab] and it will create a declation like this:

public static void method(param_type param)
{
}

With the ability to tab between the different fields.

But oh man what a pain that was to do! (I love you textmate – xx)

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