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Figure 1-62: Values that you should replace in a snippet are highlighted.

Creating Snippets

To create a new snippet, you need to build an XML file containing the property tags to define the snippet

and any replacements that the user should make. The following code shows the “Create a public prop-

erty” snippet used in the previous section. The outer

CodeSnippets and CodeSnippet tags are stan-

dard and you should not change them.

Use the

Title tag in the Header section to describe the snippet.

Inside the

Snippet tag, build a Declarations section describing any literal text that the user should

replace. This example defines

DataType, Description, DefaultValue, and PropertyName symbols.

Each literal definition includes an

ID, and can include a ToolTip and Description.

After the declarations, the

Code tag contains the snippets source code. The syntax <![CDATA[...]]>

tells XML processors to include any characters including carriage returns between the <![CDATA[ and

the

]]> in the enclosing tag.

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