The code snippet consists of two main parts:

• Header
• Snippet

The Header has the following sections:

• Title
• Shortcut
• Description
• Author
• SnippetTypes

The Header is the code snippets meta-data which includes the title of the code snippet, a shortcut to access the code snippet, a description explaining what the code snippet does, and other relevant information.

The Snippet has a mandatory section and an optional one:

• Declarations
• Code

The required section is the Code section. In this section you define the code emitted by the code snippet. The optional Declarations section is used to define the replaceable values in the code snippet. Replicable values are represented by $value$ in the Code section; they are displayed as green and are configurable by the developer using the code snippet.

Code snippets are language-specific. Visual Studio 2005 ships with a number of ready code snippets for both Visual Basic and C#. You can find all the code snippet files at the following path:

{Drive Letter}:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC#\Snippets\1033\Visual C#