Creating code snippets

To create a code snippet in Visual Studio, we need to create a file with the snippet extension. This file has an XML format, and there is a base template that we can update to include the information for our code snippet. The following code is a template example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/

    VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">

    <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">

        <Header>

            <Title></Title>

            <Author></Author>

            <Description></Description>

        ...