Surround lines of code with code snippets in Visual Studio

‘Surround With…’ snippets can be a useful time saver in Visual Studio. They allow us to surround the highlighted code with built in or custom code snippets.

The example below is simple and shows a single Console.WriteLine statement being put in an if block….


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