Click the Finish button and you've added your snippet to Visual Studio. You can now delete your .snippet file from wherever you saved it; Visual Studio keeps its copy in a safe place. Using the ...

Code snippets are an important part of many developers' toolboxes. They're useful for quickly inserting frequently-used code blocks, and a real time-saver. Visual Studio's had the ability to create ...

The snippet will also automatically add any project references or import statements needed. In addition to being a productivity aid, snippets serve as a training tool in Visual Basic.

The team today launched the Bing Code Search add-on, which directly integrates code snippet search for C# (with other languages coming later) into Visual Studio.