Snippet Designer v1.3 for Visual Studio 2008/2010 released (Think the “Cool, HTML/ASP.NET, JavaScript and SQL” support!” release)

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Snippet Designer v1.3 for Visual Studio 2008/2010 released (Think the “Cool, HTML/ASP.NET, JavaScript and SQL” support!” release)

Matt Manela's Blog - Snippet Designer 1.3 Released!

“The key features of this release are support for HTML/ASP.NET, JavaScript and SQL snippets and a much improved snippet searching experience.

If you already have it installed for Visual Studio 2010 you will get an update in your extension manager for the new version.

Change log

Changes for Visual Studio 2010

Fixed bug where "Export as Snippet" was failing in a website project

Changed Snippet Explorer search to use a relevance based algorithm which yields much better results

Added support for JavaScript snippets

Added support for SQL snippets

Added support for HTML/ASP.Net snippets

Added support for <AlternativeShortcuts> tag

Made the color of the snippet replacement highlighting configurable

Changes for Visual Studio 2008

Fixed bug where "Export as Snippet" was failing in a website project

Changed Snippet Explorer search to use a relevance based algorithm which yields much better results .” [GD: Post Leached Level: 99%]

Visual Studio Gallery - Snippet Designer

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

The Snippet Designer supports both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2008. For the 2008 download please visit the Snippet Designer Codeplex page.

For more information visit the Snippet Designer Codeplex page at http://snippetdesigner.codeplex.com

Features

A Snippet editor integrated 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 environment you write your code.

It lets you easily mark replacements by a convenient right click menu.

It displays properties of the snippet inside the Visual Studio properties window.

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A Snippet Explorer tool window to search snippets on your computer

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A right Click "Export as Snippet" menu option added to C#, VB and XML code editor to send highlighted code directly to the Snippet Editor

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CodePlex - 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.

What do I need to use this?

What can the Snippet Designer do?

How do I use the Snippet Designer?

How to build the code?

How can I contribute to this project?

Prerequisites

Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2008

Features

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If you have to copy-n-paste share, or find yourself writing code that is almost the same (and doesn’t lend itself to code generation) then snippets might be just your thing. They are especially nice if you want to share code/snips with your team.