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Allows you to specify a heading and multiple IntelliSense Code Snippets, which you can insert into Visual Studio code files.
<CodeSnippets>
   <CodeSnippet>
<CodeSnippet Format="x.x.x">
    <Header>... </Header>
    <Snippet>... </Snippet>
</CodeSnippet>
Attributes and Elements
The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.
Attributes
Attribute  | 
Description  | 
|---|---|
Format  | 
Required attribute. Specifies the schema version of the code snippet. The Format attribute must be a string in the syntax of x.x.x, where each "x" represents a numerical value of the version number. Visual Studio will ignore code snippets with Format attributes that it does not understand.  | 
Child Elements
Element  | 
Description  | 
|---|---|
Required element. Contains general information about the code snippet. There must be exactly one Header element in a code snippet.  | 
|
Required element. Contains the code that will be inserted by Visual Studio. There must be exactly one Snippet element in a code snippet.  | 
Parent Elements
Element  | 
Description  | 
|---|---|
Root element of the code snippet XML schema.  | 
Example
The following code shows a code snippet targeting version 1.0.0 of the code snippet XML schema.
<CodeSnippets xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
    <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
        <Header>
            <!-- Insert header information here -->
        </Header>
        <Snippet>
            <!-- Insert snippet information here -->
        </Snippet>
    </CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>