>>True. But three words jump out of your message -- "cut and paste." Personally I am never going back there.
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>>Congrats on the first paying C# job.
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>You may not want to go back, but when I asked in this forum about visually designing classes this was what was suggested to me - to visually design the class as a component and copy and paste the generated code into my class.
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>Besides in Visual Studio you are encouraged to do that. Copy and paste I mean. Why else would they boast having "snippets" that you are supposed to paste into your code?

You are mis-understanding the intended use of code snippets. They are primarily for the insertion of skeleton progarmming structures (such as constructors or for loops) rather than pasting code implementations.
Regards,
Viv