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Chapter 2, Master the Editor

#15 Use and Share Code Snippets

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Use and Share Code Snippets Hack #15

Tap into a whole universe of other people’s code and share some of your

own.

Visual Studio 2005 introduces a new feature called Code Snippets that

allows you to insert a piece of example code directly into the class you are

working with. At the time of this writing, this feature is available only for

Visual Basic.

Insert Code Snippets

You can quickly insert example pieces of code by right-clicking in the area

where you want to insert code, then clicking the Insert Snippet item on the

context menu that appears. A list of code categories appears, as shown in

Figure 2-39.

After you select the category Accessing Data, you will see the list of exam-

ples that you can automatically insert, as shown in Figure 2-40.

Figure 2-39. Code Snippet categories

Figure 2-40. Accessing Data example list