CodeSnippet Element (IntelliSense Code Snippets)
Allows you to specify a heading and multiple IntelliSense Code Snippets, which you can insert into Visual Studio 2005 code files.
<CodeSnippet Format="x.x.x">
<Header>... </Header>
<Snippet>... </Snippet>
</CodeSnippet>
Attributes and Elements
The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.
Attributes
Attribute |
Description |
|---|---|
Format |
Required attribute. Specifies the schema version of the code snippet. The Format attribute must be a string in the syntax of x.x.x, where each "x" represents a numerical value of the version number. Visual Studio will ignore code snippets with Format attributes that it does not understand. |
Child Elements
Element |
Description |
|---|---|
Required element. Contains general information about the code snippet. There must be exactly one Header element in a code snippet. |
|
Required element. Contains the code that will be inserted by Visual Studio. There must be exactly one Snippet element in a code snippet. |
Parent Elements
Element |
Description |
|---|---|
Root element of the code snippet XML schema. |
Example
The following code shows a code snippet targeting version 1.0.0 of the code snippet XML schema.
<CodeSnippets xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
<CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
<Header>
<!-- Insert header information here -->
</Header>
<Snippet>
<!-- Insert snippet information here -->
</Snippet>
</CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>