Code Snippet Auto Complete on Switch Statement using enum in Visual Studio

The Visual Studio is a powerful IDE (Integrated Development Environment). It provides some convenient features for speed up the coding. For example, if you want to write a switch statement to test each possible cases for a enum variable.

First step, is to type in switch and press TAB key, this will produce this.

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        enum abc  { a, b, c, d, e } ; 

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            switch (switch_on)
            {
                default:
            }
        }
    }
}

And type in abc (the enum variable you want to use) and press Arrow Down key. This will list all possible cases for that enum variable.

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        enum abc  { a, b, c, d, e } ; 

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            switch (abc)
            {
                case abc.a:
                    break;
                case abc.b:
                    break;
                case abc.c:
                    break;
                case abc.d:
                    break;
                case abc.e:
                    break;
                default:
                    break;
            }
        }
    }
}

Similarly, you can do this with for: (Type in for and press TAB key immediately):

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
            {
                
            }
        }
    }
}

The auto-completing feature allows you to type less for more! For other programming languages, it is similar, this code auto completing feature is also enabled in Visual Studio.

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