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.
Update
The main branch targets only VS 2022. There is a branch (pre-2022) for other versions.
Download
You can install the extension using the Visual Studio Extension Manager or by going to the marktplace
Recent News
- 4/29/2020 - Updated to support color themesand support for async extension model for VS 2019.
- Snippet Designer now supports C++
- Snippet Designer now supports Visual Studio 2012 RC
- Snippet Designer 1.4.0 Released!
Content
Prerequisites
- Visual Studio 2022
- Visual Studio 2019
- Visual Studio 2017
- Visual Studio 2015
Features
A Snippet editor integrated inside of the IDE which supports C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, HTML, XML and SQL
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Access it by opening any .snippet file or going to File -> New -> File -> Code Snippet File
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It uses the native Visual Studio code editor so that you can write the snippets in the same enviorment you write your code.
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It lets you easily mark replacements by a convenient right click menu.
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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, XML, JavaScript, HTML and SQL code editors to send highlighted code directly to the Snippet Editor
