A PRISM Notifying Backing Property Snippet for Visual Studio

13 Mar 2014

When writing View Models deriving from NotifyingObject in PRISM I find myself endlessly having to write public notifying properties backed by private fields. To save my fingers, here's a Visual Studio snippet I use:



  
    
      
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      PRISMNotifyingBackedProperty
      Richard Dutton
      A PRISM Notifying Backed Property
      
      
      propprism
    
    
      
        
          _myProperty
          Private backing property name
          _myProperty
          
          
        
        
          MyProperty
          Public property name
          MyProperty
          
          
        
        
      
      
         $MyProperty$); 
    } 
}]]>

To use it:

Copy and paste the xml into a new file.
Save it as "PRISMNotifyingBackedProperty.snippet".
In Visual Studio open the Code Snippet Manager (Tools -> Code Snippets Manager).
Click the Import button and navigate to the file you saved.
When it prompts you where to add the snippet, chose My Code Snippets, click Finish, then OK.

You can now type "propprism" into your code and hit Tab to insert the snippet.

Hope this helps.