A little snippet that I use from time to time when I need information on how long something takes. Type ‘sw’ (without the quotes) and tab-tab.
Installation is easy, just create a file called “sw.snippet” in your %Documents%\Visual Studio 2008\Code Snippets folder and paste the following in the file. You can use it immediately without restarting Visual Studio.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
<CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
<Header>
<Title>Add Stopwatch code</Title>
<Shortcut>sw</Shortcut>
<Description>Code snippet for adding complete Stopwatch usage and display of elapsed time.</Description>
<Author>Dennis van der Stelt</Author>
<SnippetTypes>
<SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
</SnippetTypes>
</Header>
<Snippet>
<References>
<Reference>
<Assembly>System.Diagnostics</Assembly>
</Reference>
</References>
<Code Language="csharp">
<![CDATA[Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
sw.Start();
sw.Stop();
TimeSpan ts = sw.Elapsed;
string elapsedTime = String.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}:{2:00}.{3:00}",
ts.Hours, ts.Minutes, ts.Seconds,
ts.Milliseconds / 10);
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("\n\nProcessing time : {0}", elapsedTime));]]>
</Code>
</Snippet>
</CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>
Personally I would change the snippet type to SurroundWith, so you are able to select the code you want to measure and then surround it with the snippet using CTRL+K, S.
You're right, I'll have to change it... Thanks!