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Microsoft recently released a complete set of C# code snippets for Visual Studio 2005. This brings C# to parity with VB.NET, which had many more code snippets "in the box". Unfortunately, Microsoft's installation strategy for these new snippets leaves a lot to be desired. You
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As I mentioned in Formatting HTML code snippets with Ten Ton Wrecking Balls, copying code to your clipboard in Visual Studio is often an excercise in futility if you want anything more than plain vanilla text. VS copies code to the clipboard with bizarro-world RTF formatting instead of the sane,
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One of the most enjoyable new features in Visual Studio .NET 2005 is Code Snippets [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/codesnippets.asp] . This animated GIF illustrates how it works: I'm demonstrating three types of snippets here: * simple expansion * template expansion (with
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If you've ever tried to cut and paste code from the VS.NET IDE, you may have noticed that the code generally comes across looking like crap. The root of this problem is that VS.NET copies code into your clipboard in the accursed Rich Text Format. If