Sounds like we can increase our performance by letting the code snippets generate boring repetitive code for us. In more advanced cases it might be a code snippet to generate a BindableProperty or a simple property in a ViewModel that should notify the binding engine about updates. Thats a pretty simple example, however we pressed only 4 keys instead of 19 (ignoring the autocompletion of IntelliSense). Type cw and double press the Tab key will result in Console.Writeline() Code snippet is a shortcut that can be used to generate a code from a specific template.