Question

Is there any ready for use code snippet in VS 2010 Express edition (for C#), to create constructor with parameters from selected properties?

When I create a new class and I’ve written following code:

public class FileDetails
{
    public int ID { get; set; }
    public string FileName { get; set; }
    public string FilePath { get; set; }
    public DateTime LastWriteTime { get; set; }
    public FileStatus LastFileStatus { get; set; }
    public NotifyIfFileNotExists NotifyIfFileNotExists { get; set; }
    public string RecepientsEmailList { get; set; }
    public string AdminEmailList { get; set; }

    public FileDetails()
    {
    }
}

I would like to mouse-select all the public properties (or put some snippet code), that produce following costructor for me:

public FileDetails(int id, string fileName, string filePath, DateTime lastWriteTime, FileStatus lastFileStatus, NotifyIfFileNotExists notifyIfFileNotExists, string recepientsEmailList, string adminEmailList)
{
    this.ID = id;
    this.FileName = fileName;
    this.FilePath = filePath;
    this.LastWriteTime = lastWriteTime;
    this.LastFileStatus = LastFileStatus;
    this.NotifyIfFileNotExists = notifyIfFileNotExists;
    this.RecepientsEmailList = recepientsEmailList;
    this.AdminEmailList = adminEmailList;
}

Question: is there any ready solution for that or, if no, does anyone has got an idea or ready code how to achieve that?

Best regards,
Marcin

Answer 1

ReSharper is what you’re looking for. But there’s no free version. But from .NET 3.5 you can initialize the properties without having an explicit argument for each of them.