Auto generate action in controller MVC

Question

I'm trying to use VS more efficiently, and I was looking for a way to generate a method automatically. For example, I know if you type foreach then press TAB twice it generates the skeleton code, so if I had a method like this:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult CloseTicket()
{
    //do stuff
}

Is there a way of generating the 'skeleton code' so I don't have to manually type it out. I looked into method stubs but they don't seem to apply to this.

Answer 1

There are built-in snippets in Visual Studio to help with this:

mvcaction4

inserts:

public ActionResult Action()
{
    return View();
}

And

mvcpostaction4

Inserts

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Action()
{
    return View();
}

Answer 2

If it is not there you can create a code snippet. Just put in in the right folder and VS will use it.

For VS2013 put it in folder:

\\Documents\\Visual Studio 2013\\Code Snippets\\Visual C#\\My Code Snippets

See here how to create a code snippet https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165394.aspx