Visual Studio - quick key or snippet for <% %>

Question

My goal is to be able to quickly type this:

<%= %>

Can anyone suggest a way to make it easier within Visual Studio to insert the HTML code escape block. (I am not even sure the name of this piece of code!)

I realize that typing <% in the code editor will autocomplete the escape block for me, but perhaps there's an easier way to input this block?

Perhaps there is a snippet or existing key combo built into Visual Studio to accomplish this?

Even further, this would be nice as well:

<%= Html.Encode() %>

Answer 1

Create a snippet and use Ctrl-K, Ctrl-X(VS 2005) and that will let you select the snippet!

Answer 2

Check here for a detailed discussion.

Answer 3

Sorry but it looks like snippets are not available for ASP.Net markup.

From this guy

Snippets are in VS2008 available for C#, XML and VB.NET files. In VS2010 that support extends to ASP.NET markup also.

Answer 4

Even if you created a snippet to do that, given VS does automatic matching, wouldnt it be more keystrokes to enter the snippet, than to actually type the 3 characters?