Shortcut to create properties in Visual Studio

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I have seen some people creating properties in C  really fast  but how did they do it   What shortcuts are available in Visual Studio  currently using Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2010  to create properties   I am using C    For example   public string myString  get set

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Place cursor inside your field private int  i  and then Edit menu or RMB - Refactor - Encapsulate Field     CtrlR  CtrlE  to create the standard property accessors

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Type  propfull   It is much better to use  and it will generate the property and private variable   Type  propfull  and then TAB twice

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You could type  prop  and then press tab twice  That will generate the following   public TYPE Type   get  set      Then you change  TYPE  and  Type    public string myString  get  set     You can also get the full property typing  propfull  and then tab twice  That would generate the field and the full property   private int myVar   public int MyProperty       get   return myVar       set   myVar   value

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Using VsVim the code snippets seem to work a little funny  The shortcut I was looking for when I ended up here is much simpler  after a member name type  g s   I have delimiter auto-closing turned on  so the closing brace appears on    and typing a semicolon triggers an autocomplete for get and set   It works on VS2013 and VS2015  and VS2012 just lacks the automatic brace matching

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In C    private string studentName    At the end of line after semicolon    Just Press  Ctrl   R   E   It will show a popup window like this   On click of Apply or pressing of ENTER it will generate the following code of property   public string StudentName                       get                               return studentName                             set                               studentName   value                              In VB   Private  studentName As String   At the end of line  after String  Press  Make sure you place   underscore  at the start because it will add number at the end of property   Ctrl   R   E   The same window will appear    On click of Apply or pressing of ENTER it will generate the following code of property with number at the end like this   Public Property StudentName As String         Get             Return  studentName         End Get         Set value As String               studentName   value         End Set     End Property   With number properties are like this   Private studentName As String  Public Property StudentName1 As String         Get             Return studentName         End Get         Set value As String              studentName   value         End Set     End Property

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In addition to Amra s answer  you can find other snippets by typing  Ctrl   K  Ctrl   X  Which is mapped to Edit InsertSnippet in my Visual Studio and shows you the full list of snippets available   Also remember that you can configure your own snippets by using the Snippets Manager  which is available in the Tools menu  Code Snippets Manager      Basically you create a file   snippet and use the Import button in the Code Snippets Manager to add it to Visual Studio  For a full tutorial you can go to the docs  Walkthrough  Create a code snippet     In Visual Studio Code snippets are handled slightly different than in Visual Studio  You can access all snippets by typing Ctrl   Shift   P and type in snippet  Two options should be available  Insert Snippet and Preferences  Configure User Snippets   The former inserts a snippet from your list of snippets  using the Language Mode which you can see in the status bar   and with the latter you can create your own snippets for any Language Mode   If you know the shortname you can just type that and use Tab to expand the snippet  For inserting a C  property you have three snippets available  prop  propfull  and propg  for different purposes

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I think Alt R F is the correct one for creating property from a variable declaration

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Type P   Tab   Tab   Change the datatype  press TAB  change the property name  and press End   Enter

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After typing  prop    Tab   Tab as suggested by Amra   you can immediately type the property s type  which will replace the default int   type another tab and type the property name  which will replace the default MyProperty   Finish by pressing Enter

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ReSharper offers property generation in its extensive feature set   It s not cheap though  unless you re working on an open-source project

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What I liked in the IDE was that I was able to write a few variables like       private int id      private string name      private string version      private string description      private string status      private string symbol    Notice  that the variable names start with small letters  and then select the whole block  and press Ctrl R  Ctrl E  Apply  The properties are generated with the capital letter       public int Id               get                       return id                     set                       id   value                    etc

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When you write in Visual Studio   public ServiceTypesEnum Type   get  set    public string TypeString   get   return this Type ToString        ReSharper will keep suggesting to convert it to   public string TypeString   gt  Type ToString

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In visual studio 2017 community  the key is ctrl

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Start from   private int myVar    When you select  myVar  and right click then select  Refactor  and select  Encapsulate Field    It will automatically create         get   return myVar        set   myVar   value        Or you can shortcut it by pressing Ctrl   R   E

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Go to  Tools    Options    Text Editor    C     IntelliSense  Under the Snippets behaviour section   Make sure  Always include snippets  is selected   I hope it works for you too

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If you are using Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2013  2015 or above  just click the link below  It will give you the full shortcuts in Visual Studio   Visual C  Code Snippets

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