VS Snippet: On-demand getter

I often use base page classes in my web apps. On these classes I put read-only properties for access to business layer classes. I typically set these getters up to do on-demand (or "lazy" instantiation) because not all pages will use the various business class instances that are available. Instead of creating them all on class construction or page load, the get created as needed. After figuring out how to fix the "prop" shortcut to work the way I needed, I realized it made sense to create a snippet for on-demand properties. Now I simply type "propod" and I get this:

 private object myVar;

 public object MyProperty
 {
  get
  {
   if(myVar == null)
   {
    myVar = new object();
   }
   return myVar;
  }
 }

Here's a Visual Studio shortcut snippet file XML for it. Just save it to a .snippet file in your visual studio snippets directory (i.e. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC#\Snippets\1033\Visual C#):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CodeSnippets  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
  <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
    <Header>
      <Title>propod</Title>
      <Shortcut>propod</Shortcut>
      <Description>Code snippet for on-demand read-only 
     property and backing field.</Description>
      <Author>Peter Lanoie</Author>
      <SnippetTypes>
        <SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
      </SnippetTypes>
    </Header>
    <Snippet>
      <Declarations>
        <Literal>
          <ID>type</ID>
          <ToolTip>Property type</ToolTip>
          <Default>object</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
  {
    if($field$ == null)
    {
      $field$ = new $type$();
    }
    return $field$;
  }
}
$end$]]>
      </Code>
    </Snippet>
  </CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>