如何在VB.NET for Visual Studio 2015中显示片段？

Question

Okay so I am a C# developer at heart but have been working for a living in VB for a while now. I never really thought about it till today but I used to love Snippets in Visual Studio and now I never use them or only sparingly for things like WPF properties. I notice though they don't show up for me. They work but don't give me the hints. Is that by design or an option I can set to see them?

EG in simple console app I can type 'arrSort' and then hit enter and I get:

Dim animals() As String = {"lion", "turtle", "ostrich"}
Array.Sort(animals)

Cool what I want, no problem. But I did not see any Intellisense for it and in C Sharp it shows up near immediately. I know you can go (CTRL + K, X) to get a menu of snippets, but then going to another menu to another menu is kind of tedious and defeats the whole point of a time saving of just going '123' (Tab or Enter) and getting an auto fill in suggestion of what I am about to do in a little hover menu.

From my little experience in VB it seems that some of its Intellisense really shines for the core language features but in Intellisense for Snippets it is very lacking. Is there an option I can just turn on? Or am I relegated to having to memorize them or else have the go the traverse the menu option? Because I may work in an area of File Access for a while and then have quick snippets for things with Stream Readers and Stream Writers, then come back in a few months and forget them but an auto fill in may help.

Answer 1

Using VB:

Type a partial snippet followed with a question mark, then press TAB to see list of possible snippets and their Intellisense.

arr? then Tab

Similarly, type the full snippet followed with a question mark, then press TAB to see the Intellisense for that snippet.

arrSort? then Tab

See How to: Insert IntelliSense Code Snippets