The Yortsoft Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets package is a set of 'snippet' files for use with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The snippets are generally 'expand' snippets which allow common or repetative blocks of code, which are not easily re-used via other coding mechanisms, to be quickly and easily entered into Visual Studio. If you are not famliar with Visual Studio 2005 snippets, we suggest you Google them for more information.

This set of snippets is downloaded as a set of zipped .snippet files. We suggest unzipping these to a folder on your hard drive and then 'importing' the entire folder once using Visua Studio 2005. Once the folder is imported, any .snippet files copied into (or deleted from) that folder will be automatically updated by Visual Studio.

This package includes the following snippets;

• dispobj - Expands to create a class definition for an object that correctly implements the dispoable pattern, including the IDisposable interface, suppression of the finalisation if disposed prior to the finaliser being called, use of isDisposing in a common private method to allow only non-managed resources to be disposed when called from the finaliser and an IsDisposed property. 
• propctlapp - Creates an 'appearance property' for use in a (user or custom) control class. This property comes with XML documentation, the category attribute applied with a setting of 'Appearance', the set accessor contains an if condition for checking to see if the value actually changed before calling the Invalidate method (and any other user code you insert), the description attribute (value set by snippet variable) and the browesable attribute set to true.
• eventdec - Declares an event using the generic EventHandler delegate and creates a protected virtual OnEventName for raising the event. Also includes XML documentation for the event and method created.
• invokeself - Creates a method, for use within a form or control class, which invokes itself if this.InvokeRequired is true, or executes the required code if this.InvokeRequired is false.
• memberregions - Creates the following 'regions' in the current code module; Fields, Events, Constructors/Destructors, Public Methods, Public Properties, Overrides, Private Methods, Event Handlers.
• propc - Creates a property with both get and set accessors, with an if (oldvalue != value) condition in the set accessor. Also includes XML documentation for the property created.

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