Snippet Designer

 

Welcome to the Snippet Designer

The Snippet Designer is a plugin which enhances the Visual Studio IDE to allow a richer and more productive code snippet experience.

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2008

Features

• A Snippet editor integreated inside of the IDE.
  • Access it by opening any .snippet file or going to File -> New -> File -> Code Snippet File
  • It uses the native Visual Studio code editor so that you can write the snippets in the same enviorment you write your code.
  • It lets you easily mark replacements by a convenient righ click menu.
  • It displays properties of the snippet inside the Visual Studio properties window.

• A Snippet Explorer tool window to search snippets on your computer.
  • It is located under View -> Other Windows -> Snippet Explorer
  • This tool window contains a code preview window which lets to peek inside the snippet to see what it is without opening the file.
  • Maintains an index of snippets on your computer for quick searching.
  • Provides a quick way to find a code snippet to use, edit or delete

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