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Kiran Ramaswamy
Kiran Ramaswamy

Reputation: 796

Automatically get properties and defaults when instantiating class?

Been looking for a way (either built-in, or through a plugin), to automate the properties and defaults when instantiating a class. For example, if I have the following:

public class MyClass
{
    string MyPropertyString { get; set; }
    int MyPropertyIntWithDefault { get; set; } = 5,
    decimal? MyPropertyDecimalWithNoDefault { get; set; }
}

I'd love to be able to say MyClass MyClassImplemented = new MyClass {, hit a button or click an option, and have it automatically finish my code as:

MyClass MyClassImplemented = new MyClass {
    MyPropertyString = "",
    MyPropertyIntWithDefault = 5,
    MyPropertyDecimalWithNoDefault = null
};

I'm guessing I could write an extension or tool myself using reflection, but if anyone has any suggestions that have already been implemented, I'd love to hear them. Thanks!

* EDIT *

To be clear, what I'm looking for is a way to automate the generation of that stub so that I can then change the ones I want to change, instead of having to either type them in manually or copy-paste them from the definition. I know that I can set default values so that I can generate the class with those values automatically.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 439

Answers (1)

Salah Akbari
Salah Akbari

Reputation: 39946

All that you need is just creating a new instance of your class, then this new instance has all of the properties filled by their default value:

MyClass MyClassImplemented = new MyClass();

You just need to change your class a bit to set the properties a default value (don't forget to use ; after properties, however this works in C#6+):

public class MyClass
{
    public string MyPropertyString { get; set; } = "";
    public int MyPropertyIntWithDefault { get; set; } = 5;
    public decimal? MyPropertyDecimalWithNoDefault { get; set; }
}

Based on your update, it seems what you are looking for, is a way to create a code snippet, so that you would be able to append the properties of the class by hitting some button, in this case you can create a code snippet in Visual Studio, you can go through this tutorial https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/walkthrough-creating-a-code-snippet?view=vs-2019

Upvotes: 1

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