Shortcut for creating constructor with variables (C# Visual Studio 2010)

Question

In Visual Studio 2010 C# you can, in a class, type ctor and then press tab and Visual Studio will create a constructor for that class for me. It is very convenient.

But is there a way to make Visual Studio create a constructor with all my variables, properties and so on?

For example,

public class User
{
    public String UserName { get; private set; }
}

And for this I want ctor + tab to make me a

public User(string UserName)
{
    this.UserName = UserName;
}

Answer 1

You can sort of do this the other way around; if you start without the constructor or field, and try to use the non-existent constructor, you can press ctrl+. to ask it to generate one for you, usage-first:

This compiler then generates something not too dissimilar:

public class User
{
    private string username;

    public User(string username)
    {
        // TODO: Complete member initialization
        this.username = username;
    }
}

You can then fix this up manually if needed (perhaps using the inbuilt rename refactor, etc). But not quite what you wanted.

Answer 2

If you are using ReSharper the shortcut is Alt + Insert.

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