Snippet Designed for VS 2008 and VS 2010
ByI love code snippets. Way back in the early VB days, I created add-ins for the IDE that allowed me to create and save an array of short snippets of code and automatically insert them into the code window. I like to use snippets for things that I either don’t use often enough to remember, or to quickly enter templates for things I use a lot to save time. Visual Studio .Net has a Snippet Manager and lets you create snippets in XML, but there is no built-in editor. There are a couple of editors available, some stand-alone and at least one called Snippet Designer that is integrated into the IDE. Snippet Designer gives you an explorer to find snippets on your drive and a nice editor for creating and saving snippets. One nice feature is you can highlight a section of code and save it as a snippet. Quick and easy. The designer allows you to quickly mark the replacement sections of the code set other properties and will create the “surround” type of snippet. Here’s a screentshot:
The Snippet Desginer IDE
I like this tool. I have had a few small issues with getting the tool to index alternate snippet folders, but that is a small thing compared to its usefulness. Try it. I think you might like it as much as I do.
Snippet Designer can be downloaded from http://snippetdesigner.codeplex.com/
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