Or, you can type tryf and press Tab twice.Īn example of a surround-with snippet: in C++ the shortcut if can be used either as an insertion snippet or as a surround-with snippet. You can insert this snippet by clicking Insert Snippet in the right-click menu (context menu) of the code window, then Visual C#, then type tryf, and then press Tab. In Visual Studio there are two kinds of code snippet: expansion snippets, which are added at a specified insertion point and may replace a snippet shortcut, and surround-with snippets (C# and C++ only), which are added around a selected block of code.Īn example of an expansion snippet: in C# the shortcut tryf is used to insert a try-finally block: try On the menu bar, choose Edit > IntelliSense > Insert Snippetįrom the right-click or context menu in the code editor, choose Snippet > Insert Snippetįrom the keyboard, press Ctrl+ K, Ctrl+ XĮxpansion snippets and surround-with snippets To view all the available installed snippets for a language, open the Code Snippets Manager from the Tools menu (or, press Ctrl+ K, Ctrl+ B), and choose the language from the drop-down menu at the top.Ĭode snippets can be accessed in the following general ways: For Visual Studio for Mac, see Code snippets (Visual Studio for Mac).Ĭode snippets are available for a multitude of languages, including C#, C++, Visual Basic, XML, and T-SQL, to name a few.
This topic applies to Visual Studio on Windows.
