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

• Snippet Designer 2022
• Snippet Designer Pre-2022

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

• Create a snippets from scratch
• Managing existing snippets
• Building the code

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

• 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, XML, JavaScript, HTML and SQL code editors to send highlighted code directly to the Snippet Editor