using a Code Snippet for INotifyPropertyChanged

Question

I found this code snippet for INotifyPropertyChanged

But it shows the code like this :

Answer 1

It's surprising to me that the following suggestion hasn't been made. I took your initial snippet (from the originating author's page) and made the following modifications. You should be able to copy-and-paste this into your own snippet file.

    
        

            
            propn
            Code snippet for property and backing field in class implementing INotifyPropertyChanged
            Brian Schroer, Modified by RLH
            
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                    type
                    Property Type
                    int
                
                
                    variable
                    Underlying Variable
                    _myProperty
                
                
                    property
                    Property name
                    MyProperty
                
        
          notifyMethod
          name of method to raise PropertyChanged event
          NotifyPropertyChanged
        
      
            
            
        
    

What's Changed

First, I added a new literal variable. This creates a new, updatable item that you can tab from within the snippet. The variable name is defaulted to _propertyName which, as you can see, is a lowercase name. Note, unlike the original snippet, the underscore was being hardcoded before the PropertyName literal. In my code, I've split out the variable name from the property name.

I chose not to hardcode the underscore in my snippet so that if others use this code, they are at liberty to choose a different style of variable name. However, by way of the default, I am hinting at using the underscore.

If you want to force the underscore, then change the default variable value to propertyName. Then, everywhere variable is referenced, place the _ character before the reference.