Expanding multi-line snippet adds extra line at the bottom

Question

Is there any way to prevent the addition of an extra line below a multi-line snippet in VB.NET?

(hit tab key to expand snippet...)

I've double checked that the snippet itself does not have an extra line at the end. Also, this seems to be VB-specific.

Infrequent

social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/… – Embonpoint

That's the default behavior I think. – Arv

@PradeepKumar -- Why do you think that? Any why would that be preferable behavior? – Infrequent

Answer 1

Just close the ]] after the end of your snipped. The ¿end¿ part sets the caret at this position after inserting the snipped.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CodeSnippets 
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
  <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
    <Header>
      <SnippetTypes>
        <SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
      </SnippetTypes>
      <Title>tryt</Title>
      <Author>[USERNAME]</Author>
      <Description>
      </Description>
      <HelpUrl>
      </HelpUrl>
      <Shortcut>tryt</Shortcut>
    </Header>
    <Snippet>
      <Code Language="vb" Delimiter="¿"><![CDATA[Try

            ¿end¿

        Catch ex As Exception
            Throw New Exception(ex) 'or do some other stuff
        End Try]]></Code>
    </Snippet>
  </CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>

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