Record own code snippet ?

[TakisTakis]

Hi,

I was reading about Intellisense and Code Snippets and I saw that you have a lot of hotkeys with tab that reveal different code portions.

Is there a way to record a new one ?

(For those that do not know that trick you can eg. write if and then press tab and the "if " will be replace with

if (expression)
{
}
else
{

in Ninjascript.

Now I have my own code and I would like to store so that I do not have to write entire functions with try catch blocks from scratch

Thanks in advance!!!

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello TakisTakis,

Unfortunately this is not supported. Thank you for the suggestion.

As a hint, take a look at:
\Program Files\NinjaTrader\bin\custom\snippet

We cannot assist in creating these but it may be possible if you feel like playing around a bit.

You can see a list of available intellisense shortcuts here.

[TakisTakis]

Thanks Ryan I will look at it, there may be a couple of things I can do.

[TheTradingMantis]

TakisTakis, I was interested in doing the same thing. Microsoft Visual Studio supports the creation of the XML snippet files. Here is a link with more details on creating your own snippets. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...94(VS.80).aspx

[TakisTakis]

Thanks I will look at it!

[MXASJ]

Visual Studio 2010 does most of that out-of-the-box for regular C# expressions such as "if" statements, and there is a free extension that allows you to create you own code snippets called Snippet Designer.

Intellisense information would come from comments with three of these /// just before the method. Here is an example snippet for OnStartUp():

 /// <summary>
 /// Called once when the stratgey is first enabled
 /// </summary>
 protected override void OnStartUp()
 {
 } 

You can also drag frequently used code into the toolbox in Visual Studio for reuse in other projects.

On the Open Source front I've heard good things about Notepad++ though I've never tried it myself and don't know if it helps in the snippets department.

[TheTradingMantis]

Thanks MXASJ, I'll have to checkout the upgrade to VS10.

I've been using Notepad++ for several months and really like it as a general text editor. It is also great for editing large data files before importing into NinjaTrader. It looks like it would be a good editor for programming too.