What are code snippets?

Code snippets are a simple and easy way to reuse code by creating templates that generate common statements, such as conditionals, loops, or comment structures.

Visual Studio has many code snippets by default for almost all the supported technologies and programming languages. There are many ways to use code snippets in Visual Studio, so let's check them out.

Important Note

Code snippets are a common concept in software development. Almost all IDEs and code editors provide code snippets or have extensions to include code snippets.

Using the SPA project created in Chapter 4, Creating Projects and Templates, you will create a new condition to return an empty collection in the Get method by navigating to the WeatherForecastController.cs file. Just write the word if to see the code snippet suggested by Visual Studio (see Figure 6.1):

Figure 6.1 – The code snippet for the if statement suggested by Visual Studio

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