I created this snippet for Dependency Properties in Silverlight. If you are creating custom Silverlight controls you might find this snippet useful. I stored my code snippets here "My DocumentsVisual Studio 2008Code SnippetsVisual C#My Code Snippets" so all you need to do is copy the file to this location. Visual Studio should load the snippet the next time you start it up. If it does not then you can go into "Tools", "Code Snippets Manager" and load it up manually.
Now when you type "propsl" and hit tab you will get a stubbed out property like below, where tabbing through the items allows you to change the type and name of the property, set the owning class and provide a default value.
public int MyProperty{ get { return (int)GetValue(MyPropertyProperty); } set { SetValue(MyPropertyProperty, value); }}
public static readonly DependencyProperty MyPropertyProperty =
DependencyProperty.Register("MyProperty", typeof(int), typeof(MyClass), new PropertyMetadata(null, new PropertyChangedCallback(MyClass.OnMyPropertyPropertyChanged)));
private static void OnMyPropertyPropertyChanged(DependencyObject obj, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{}
Here is the code for the snippet and a link to the file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
<CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
<Header>
<Title>propsl</Title>
<Shortcut>propsl</Shortcut>
<Description>Code snippet for an automatically implemented dependency property in Silverlight.</Description>
<Author>Cameron Albert</Author>
<SnippetTypes>
<SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
</SnippetTypes>
</Header>
<Snippet>
<Declarations>
<Literal>
<ID>type</ID>
<ToolTip>Property type</ToolTip>
<Default>int</Default>
</Literal>
<Literal>
<ID>property</ID>
<ToolTip>Property name</ToolTip>
<Default>MyProperty</Default>
</Literal>
<Literal>
<ID>ownerClass</ID>
<ToolTip>Owner Class</ToolTip>
<Default>MyClass</Default>
</Literal>
<Literal>
<ID>defaultValue</ID>
<ToolTip>Default Value</ToolTip>
<Default>null</Default>
</Literal>
</Declarations>
<Code Language="csharp">
<![CDATA[public $type$ $property$
{
get { return ($type$)GetValue($property$Property); }
set { SetValue($property$Property, value); }
}
public static readonly DependencyProperty $property$Property = DependencyProperty.Register("$property$", typeof($type$), typeof($ownerClass$), new PropertyMetadata($defaultValue$, new PropertyChangedCallback($ownerClass$.On$property$PropertyChanged)));
private static void On$property$PropertyChanged(DependencyObject obj, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
}
$end$]]>
</Code>
</Snippet>
</CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>
Silverlight Dependency Property Snippet
3/9/2009