Code snippet or shortcut to create a constructor in Visual Studio

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What is the code snippet or shortcut for creating a constructor in Visual Studio  Visual Studio 2010 and C

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In Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2010  if you type  ctor   without the quotes   IntelliSense should load  showing you  ctor  in the list  Now press TAB twice  and you should have generated an empty constructor

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Type  ctor    TAB   TAB  hit the Tab key twice   This will create the default constructor for the class you are in   public MyClass          It seems that in some cases you will have to press TAB twice

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Type ctor and Tab

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If you use ReSharper  you can quickly generate constructors by typing    ctor    Tab   Tab  without parameters    ctorf    Tab   Tab  with parameters that initialize all fields  or  ctorp    Tab   Tab  with parameters that initialize all properties

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For Visual Studio 2017  press Ctrl

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Simply type ctor then press TAB

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I have created some handy code snippets that ll create overloaded constructors as well  You re welcome to use them  https   github com ejbeaty Power-Snippets  For example   ctor2  would create a constructor with two arguments and allow you to tab through them one by one like this   public MyClass ArgType argName  ArgType argName

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In case you want a constructor with properties  you need to do the following   Place your cursor in any empty line in a class   Press Ctrl     to trigger the Quick Actions and Refactorings menu    Select Generate constructor from the drop-down menu   Pick the members you want to include as constructor parameters  You can order them using the up and down arrows  Choose OK    The constructor is created with the specified parameters  Generate a constructor in Visual Studio

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Press Alt   Enter Select  quot Generate Constructor quot  Select required members  A parameterized constructor is generated with the selected members

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As mentioned by many   quot ctor quot  and double TAB works in Visual Studio 2017  but it only creates the constructor with none of the attributes  To auto-generate with attributes  if there are any   just click on an empty line below them and press Ctrl      It ll display a small pop-up from which you can select the  quot Generate Constructor    quot  option

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Type the name of any code snippet and press TAB   To get code for properties you need to choose the correct option and press TAB twice because Visual Studio has more than one option which starts with  prop   like  prop    propa   and  propdp

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Type ctor  and then press TAB twice

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Should you be interested in creating the  ctor  or a similar class-name-injecting snippet from scratch  create a  snippet file in the C  snippets directory  for example C  VS2017 VC  Snippets 1033 Visual C  C Snippets snippet  with this XML content    lt CodeSnippets gt       lt CodeSnippet gt           lt Header gt               lt Title gt ctor lt  Title gt               lt Shortcut gt ctor lt  Shortcut gt           lt  Header gt           lt Snippet gt               lt Declarations gt                   lt Literal Editable  false  gt  lt ID gt classname lt  ID gt  lt Function gt ClassName   lt  Function gt  lt  Literal gt               lt  Declarations gt               lt Code gt                   lt   CDATA public  classname   end                                          gt               lt  Code gt           lt  Snippet gt       lt  CodeSnippet gt   lt  CodeSnippets gt    This snippet injects the current class name by way of calling C  code snippet function ClassName    detailed on this docs microsoft page   The end result of expanding this code snippet

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If you want to see the list of all available snippets    Press Ctrl   K and then X

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I don t know about Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2010  but in Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2008 the code snippet is  ctor

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For the full list of snippets  little bits of prefabricated code  press Ctrl K and then Ctrl X  Source from MSDN  Works in Visual Studio 2013 with a C  project   So how to make a constructor   Press Ctrl K and then Ctrl X Select Visual C  Select ctor Press Tab   Update  You can also right-click in your code where you want the snippet  and select Insert Snippet from the right-click menu

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Type ctor  and then press the Tab key

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