17.4. Summary

Code snippets are a valuable inclusion in the Visual Studio 2008 feature set. You learned in this chapter how to use them, and, more importantly, how to create your own, including variable substitution and Imports and reference associations for Visual Basic snippets. With this information you'll be able to create your own library of code snippets from functionality that you use frequently, saving you time in coding similar constructs later.

This chapter also provided examples of each of the refactoring actions available within Visual Studio 2008. Although VB.NET developers do not get complete refactoring support out of the box, Refactor! provides a wide range of refactoring actions that complement the editor the developer already has.