>>>>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?
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>>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
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>Viv
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>If I am not mistaken it was you who suggested designing copying and pasting of generated code when I asked about trying to design classes visually.

IIRC, that was for a specific WPF case - but what's that to do with code snippets? I'm sure everyone uses cut/paste occasionally - but to infer that code snippets were added to VS because it requires more cut/paste than any other platform is silly. Have you ever written a C# code snippet? Of course, for FWIW, VS does have the simple facility to store code fragments in the toolbox - maybe that's what you were referring to?

Regards,
Viv