Built-in snippets are available for all ASP.NET controls and
HTML markup elements.
Built-in snippets are also available for common ASP.NET MVC
view scenarios, and for the built-in ASP.NET MVC HTML helpers.
For example, we can type “<act” within a ASP.NET MVC view
and select the “actionlink” snippet:
When we complete it and hit the “tab” key the snippet will
execute – which will cause it to replace the snippet name with the markup
below:
Notice that the “linktext” and “actionname” values are
marked as snippet parameters – which means we can easily replace them without
having to use the cursor keys or touch the mouse. The first linktext
parameter value is selected by default – which means we can just type to
immediately replace the value, then hit tab to immediately select and replace
the second actionname parameter:
