Inspired by Fritz’ post, I created this little snippet on the train…

<?xml version=“1.0“ encoding=“utf-8“ ?>

<CodeSnippets  xmlns=“http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet“>

  <CodeSnippet Format=“1.0.0“>

    <Header>

      <Title>aspprop</Title>

      <Shortcut>aspprop</Shortcut>

      <Description>New ASP.NET Property with ViewState</Description>

      <Author>Dominick Baier</Author>

      <SnippetTypes>

        <SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>

      </SnippetTypes>

    </Header>

    <Snippet>

      <Declarations>

        <Literal>

          <ID>name</ID>

          <ToolTip>Property Name</ToolTip>

          <Default>MyProperty</Default>

        </Literal>

        <Object>

          <ID>type</ID>

          <ToolTip>Property Type</ToolTip>

          <Default>string</Default>

        </Object>

        <Literal>

          <ID>DefaultValue</ID>

          <ToolTip>Default Value</ToolTip>

          <Default>“”</Default>

        </Literal>

      </Declarations>

      <Code Language=“csharp“>

        <![CDATA[

  public $type$ $name$

  {

      get { return ($type$)ViewState[“$name$”] ?? $DefaultValue$; }

      set { ViewState[“$name$”] = value; }

  }

  $end$]]>

      </Code>

    </Snippet>

  </CodeSnippet>

</CodeSnippets>

Name this file “aspprop.snippet” and copy it to My Documents/Visual Studio 2005/Code Snippets/Visual C#/My Code Snippets.