Shortcut to string in Visual Studio

Question

When using Visual Studio console applications I often use the following line of code:

Console.WriteLine("press [enter] to exit");

Is there a way of setting up a short-cut key in Visual Studio so that I don't need to type this every time?

There are probably other lines of code I regularly use for one reason or another that a short-cut feature would be beneficial.

Answer 1

You can define yourself a code snippet . Creating Our Own Snippets Using Visual Studio 2010 is a cool article for this.

For Console.Writeline() method, write cw and press Tab twice.

Answer 2

Save this in (filename).snippet

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <CodeSnippets
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
      <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
        <Header>
          <Title>cwe</Title>
          <Shortcut>cwe</Shortcut>
        </Header>
        <Snippet>
          <Code Language="CSharp">
            <![CDATA[Console.WriteLine("press [enter] to exit");]]>
          </Code>
        </Snippet>
      </CodeSnippet>
    </CodeSnippets>

Next choose tools-> code snippet manager... , click import, choose your file and add.

Now if you type cwe while you coding click Tab.

Answer 3

如果您经常需要使用Console.WriteLine() ，则可以键入c + w + Tab