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If you type prop and hit "tab" twice, this will bring the Automatic property not the conventional property declaration. But if you wish to get the conventional property you can do so by adding your own snippet. Simply copy the text below and save it as "propc.snippet" to your Visual Studio 2008 snippets folder. after you save this file there, you can type your shortcut "propc" and hit tab twice and the conventional property will populate.

This is where you store your snippet:

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets

Here is the code for the snippet:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CodeSnippets  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
<CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
<Header>
<Title>propc</Title>
<Shortcut>propc</Shortcut>
<Description>Code snippet for property and backing field</Description>
<Author>Microsoft Corporation</Author>
<SnippetTypes>
<SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
</SnippetTypes>
</Header>
<Snippet>
<Declarations>
<Literal>
<ID>type</ID>
<ToolTip>Property type</ToolTip>
<Default>int</Default>
</Literal>
<Literal>
<ID>property</ID>
<ToolTip>Property name</ToolTip>
<Default>MyProperty</Default>
</Literal>
<Literal>
<ID>field</ID>
<ToolTip>The variable backing this property</ToolTip>
<Default>myVar</Default>
</Literal>
</Declarations>
<Code Language="csharp">
<![CDATA[private $type$ $field$;
public $type$ $property$
{
get { return $field$;}
set { $field$ = value;}
}
$end$]]>
</Code>
</Snippet>
</CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>

I did som copy and paste from the good folks at Microsoft (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/362314fe(VS.71).aspx):

String literals are of type string and can be written in two forms, quoted and @-quoted. Quoted string literals are enclosed in double quotation marks ("):
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"good morning"  // a string literal

and can contain any character literal, including escape sequences:
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string a = "\\\u0066\n";  // backslash, letter f, new line

Note   The escape code \udddd (where dddd is a four-digit number) represents the Unicode character U+dddd. Eight-digit Unicode escape codes are also recognized: \udddd\udddd.

@-quoted string literals start with @ and are enclosed in double quotation marks. For example:
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@"good morning"  // a string literal

The advantage of @-quoting is that escape sequences are not processed, which makes it easy to write, for example, a fully qualified file name:
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@"c:\Docs\Source\a.txt"  // rather than "c:\\Docs\\Source\\a.txt"

To include a double quotation mark in an @-quoted string, double it:
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@"""Ahoy!"" cried the captain." // "Ahoy!" cried the captain.

Another use of the @ symbol is to use referenced (/reference) identifiers that happen to be C# keywords. For more information, see 2.4.2 Identifiers.

The code below shows how to use the System.IO.DirectoryInfo function to retreive all the files in the specified location, it also show how to get the size aswell. You will have to parse a folder location such as c:\ to the parameter strLocation.

using System.IO;
string strLocation = @"SomePhysicalPath";
DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(strLocation);
foreach (FileInfo f in dir.GetFiles("*.*"))
{    
    e.Body += f.Name + " " + f.Length + "<br>";
}

Finding the mappath from a c# class library is very easy using this simple code:

using System.Web;
string RootPath = @"gallery/";
string folder = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(RootPath);

The mappath is located in the current context of the system.web class. Easy if you know where to find it ;-)