#VISUAL STUDIO XAML HOW TO#
#VISUAL STUDIO XAML CODE#
#VISUAL STUDIO XAML WINDOWS#

#VISUAL STUDIO XAML CODE#

In fact, the #region one is a good example: it surrounds the selected code and also gives you a field to complete for the region name. That is to say I can have a SurroundWith snippet that is also an Expansion. It is important to note that these can be used exclusively or together. An example of this is the #region snippet which puts the begin/end region tags around selected code. A SurroundWith snippet is one that surrounds (duh!) the selected content in the editor surface with your template. You start typing foreach, then hit tab-tab and you are presented with a template, more or less, to complete. My most widely used one is вЂforeachвЂ™ in C#. The basics that I think you want to know are the two main types of snippets: Expansion and SurroundWith.ДЄn Expansion snippet is one that you invoke and it gives you placeholders for stuff to fill out. You can read more in-depth data about VS Code Snippets here. These code snippets can apply to many things including languages (C#, VB, etc.) as well as вЂmarkupвЂ™ languages (CSS and now XAML). IвЂ™ve responded to a few on an MSDN forum thread offering to share my snippets and someone suggested I post more details, so here it is! Anatomy of a Code SnippetД¬ode Snippets in VS are basically XML files that sit in a special location (one of two locations, global or user). As of this writing, the functionality was in the preview, however no default XAML code snippets are provided. IвЂ™ve gotten lazy and wanted a quick вЂrefactorвЂ™ way to do this and now I can! A few have emailed me asking where the snippet I used was as nothing was working in the preview for them. This was one of the customer requests for a while for the XAML editor and is now available in the VS 2013 preview! In my presentation I showed a common task that I do which is to have many elements and wrap them in a StackPanel. One of the things I showed was the introduction of Visual Studio (VS) code snippets for the XAML editor. Please go check out his session: WhatвЂ™s New in Blend and Visual Studio for XAML Developers for the complete details. My colleague Unni followed my session with one specifically about XAML tooling enhancements with a whirlwind tour of all the new features. In my session I gave some preview of some of the great new XAML tooling that is introduced for developer productivity in Visual Studio 2013 which, as of this writing, is currently in preview form and available for download. All the sessions are recorded so please go view mine and review it how you think so they might invite me back!

#VISUAL STUDIO XAML WINDOWS#

I had the privilege of introducing an overview of what was new in the XAML UI framework for Windows 8.1.

#VISUAL STUDIO XAML HOW TO#

(I never know how to write вЂњbuildвЂќ in a sentence and refuse to use the вЂњ//вЂќ in front of it.) These are things that I LOVE doing and wish I could do it more. A few weeks ago I had the great pleasure of being in front of you, our developer customers (and friends) at the Microsoft BUILD conference.

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