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The Snippet Editor

The Snippet Editor allows for easy management and creation of code snippets for Visual Studio. This is the Snippet Editor, formely known as the VB Snippet Editor as linked to from the MSDN Visual Basic site. The Snippet Editor is a stand-alone exe suitable for all versions of Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 including the Express editions.

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Increase Your Productivity

The hundreds of code snippets that ship with Visual Basic certainly help your productivity. But what about developing your own library of custom snippets? With The Snippet Editor you can use this Windows Forms application to rapidly build and test your snippets.

  • Visually define custom replacement parameters for your snippets
  • Add custom metadata such as title, author and description to your snippets.
  • Easily define keyboard shortcuts for your snippets to provide fast access.
  • Define reference assemblies your snippets use.



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