Catch my Point

Using snippets saves lots of time, recently stumbled upon this cool animated gif. Source : http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000419.html Ctrl+K, Ctrl+X is the shortcut to invoke intellisense for code snippets Ctrl+K, Ctrl+B invokes snippet management interface http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379562(VS.80).aspx has more info on creating custom snippets.