VS2005 ‘prop’ C# Code Snippet in VS2008

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February 27th, 2008
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VS2005 ‘prop’ C# Code Snippet in VS2008

Automatic properties are nice, but sometimes you just want a good ol’ regular property with a backing field. Visual C# 2005 had the ‘prop’ code snippet which generated this:

visual c# 2005 prop code snippet

Visual C# 2008 now generates the following when using the ‘prop’ snippet:

I find myself wanting to use the old snippet more than the new one, so I went into the 2005 code snippets, copied the ‘prop’ snippet file, made a few changes and imported it into 2008 (Tools | Code Snippets Manager | Import).

Now, all is well:

Here’s a .zip file of the snippet that you can download.

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Aaron Powell 6 months ago 1 point
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Umm... why? The C# 3.0 compiler will generate valid IL from the new prop. The old one is no longer needed as it adds unnessisary lines of code.

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John 6 months ago 1 point
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For default values. For instance, if I have a string property that should always have a default, I can't do that with automatic props.

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Serban 6 months ago 1 point
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nice going mate!

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Laurent Duveau 5 months ago 1 point
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Nice one!

For your information I submitted this bug on Connect some time ago:
http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2008/03/...

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http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/

Sabrina 5 months ago 1 point
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As A comment to the post, I add that the old prop snippet is a must when you are not yet using the new Framework but still use Framework 2.0 as I do.

And I ask you a hint if you can:

I dont' know if it's a problem in my installation of Visual Studio But today I used for the first time a snippet and When I pressed tab instead of going from the first placeholder to the second it simply inserted a tab in the placeholder variabile
such it happened in Visual Basic 2005.
Have you ever had such behaviour? Could it be generated from some crazy default setting?

Sabrina

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Dmitri 1 month ago 1 point
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Why do you have to type the name of backing field and property? Surely it is possible to have one derived from another?

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http://nesteruk.org/blog

John 1 month ago 1 point
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Best I can tell from the C# Code Snippet docs, you cannot transform the backing field name into the property name (or vice versa). There's very basic support for functions, and none of them cover this case.

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