How to store reusable code in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

Is there any way I could save my block of code in Visual Studio 2010 and reuse it in my future web applications without having to "Add existing files"? Is there a feature in VS2010 that lets you globally store these blocks of code?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Oded pretty much covered it but I'll just reiterate here. There are three main ways you can do this depending on how much code you want to store.

For a little code just copy the code to your Toolbox: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2010/01/24/drag-and-drop-code-onto-the-toolbox-vstiptool0007.aspx

For a little code to very large blocks of code (with some intelligence for putting in values) you can use code snippets: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/tags/tips+and+tricks/snippet/

And for lots of custom files, resources, etc... that essentially make up a new project you should use project templates: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2010/02/22/roll-your-own-project-or-item-with-the-export-template-wizard-vstipproj0004.aspx

Answer 2

Visual Studio has a feature called code snippets, which will allow you to do exactly that.

If you want a more advanced use - for whole files, sets of files and even whole projects, use templates.