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Code Snippets for Visual Studio

Visual Studio has a great feature to speed entry of frequently typed lines of code called Code Snippets. It works by typing a few chars and pressing tab (C++) or tab-tab (C#). For C# my favorites are 'cw' for adding 'Console.WriteLine' and 'mbox' for adding 'MessageBox.Show'. Visual C++ lacks a similar snippet for adding AfxMessageBox--until now.

To add this as a new snippet, save the XML below as a file with extension *.snippet and open the Visual Studio Snippet manager. (Searching "Code Snippets Manager" from the search box is an easy way to find it.)  Then import the snippet under Visual C++/My Code Snippets. Enjoy the increased productivity!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
<CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
  <Header>
    <Title>AfxMessageBox</Title>
    <Author>nzmCoder</Author>
    <Description>A pop-up message box.</Description>
    <Shortcut>mbox</Shortcut>
  </Header>
  <Snippet>
    <Code Language="CPP">
    <![CDATA[AfxMessageBox("$Text$", 
             MB_ICONINFORMATION, 0);]]>
    </Code>
    <Declarations>
      <Literal>
        <ID>Text</ID>
        <ToolTip>Your message here.</ToolTip>
        <Default>Message Text</Default>
      </Literal>
    </Declarations>
  </Snippet>
</CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>

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