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A Must Have Tool - VS 2008 Snippet Designer

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Mathew Manela from the Online Tools Group at Microsoft has written a really cool tool, which adds a feature missing for a long time in Visual Studio: Code Snippet Creation.

The tool, which is available at https://www.codeplex.com/SnippetDesigner allows a bunch of functionality for working with custom snippets.

  1. Add a new .SNIPPET file via File-New-File--Code Snippet File
  2. Export existing code into a snippet:
    Simply right click on the selected code and press "Export as Snippet".
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  3. Edit snippets (set placeholders, etc..)
    The editor is opened after exporting something.
    Additionally you can later on open .snippet files out of the "Snippet Explorer" (see below).
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  4. The Snippet Explorer
    Go to "View - Other Windows - Snippet Explorer" to search for existing snippets.
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The snippets you build are stored under the path %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets.

You can either insert them via the context menu "Insert Code Snippet"
(Ctrl+K-X) or you can assign a short-phrase (shortcut).

With the shortcut you just need to type e.g. prop<tab><tab> to insert a property code snippet.

You can set the shortcut (and other things as well) in the property window of the snippet editor.

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  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2008
    PingBack from http://www.simplynetdev.com/a-must-have-tool-vs-2008-snippet-designer/

  • Anonymous
    October 22, 2008
    I've played around with Composite Application Guidance for WPF for a while now. Yesterday I did a session

  • Anonymous
    October 22, 2008
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    October 22, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    October 22, 2008
    Is there any thing from whihc we can insert snippet in ASPX part ? I mean Html/Aspx Code snippet ?

  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    November 12, 2008
    I have tried this great tool on vs2008 and it worked very well. But now i have installed vs2008 team system +sp1 and i tried to install this tool and it showed up an error message. Is it available for vs2008 team ? Thank you very much