Welcome to the Snippet Designer

1. What do I need to use this?
2. What can the Snippet Designer do?
3. How to build the code?
4. How can I contribute to this project?

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2010
• Visual Studio 2008

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 enviorment 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.

• 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

• 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