Question

I am using VS2010, i want to create a snippet to do the following:

When I press { or ( then press tab the snippet writes ) or }. I created the snippets but when I write { or ( which are specified as the snippets shortcuts they does not work

Please help

Answer 1

You just can’t use these characters for the snippet shortcut, refer to this MSDN article: Code Snippets (C#)

The yellow note at the end of the article says the following:

For C# code snippets, the characters that are valid for specifying the field are: alphanumeric characters, the number sign (#), the tilde character (~), the underscore character (_), and the en dash character (-).