ReSharper Tip of the Day: Templates Revisited, and the Surround With
Today’s ReSharper Tip of the Day is a guest posting from Josh Buedel, It is a great tip that extends ReSharper’s use into the CSS and HTML space.
Resharper templates come in two flavors: Live Templates which are invoked by typing keyword and pressing tab, and Surround With Templates, which are invoked against the current selection.
Did you know that R# templates can be used in any file type? You aren’t limited to just the sections of files that it understands. For example I’ve built up a handful of templates for Aspx pages. Surround With templates are particularly useful in a markup language like html.
I first invoke my custom Surround With CSS Comment (Ctrl+Alt+J).
Then I type the keyword data and hit Tab, which invokes a custom live template for databinding code.
In this one I select all that and again do a Surround With, this time using my custom Link Tag (<a/>) template.
Lastly, I have this generic tag inserter.
Notice how as I change the name of the opening tag, the end tag is updated right along with it. I accomplish this by repeating my template variable (which I have named $TAG$) within the template. Once the template mode is exited the cursor ends up positioned inside the opening tag, but just before the closing > character. This is by design, by using the predefined $END$ variable, and is right where I would need to be to insert an attribute should one be needed. Here’s the complete template for this:
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