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New Post: The Main Icon does not fit the vs 2012 style

yannduran — Fri, 24 May 2013 08:16:27 GMT

Matt, that's not your problem, that's Visual Studio's problem. There are some of us who still hold out hope that it will be possible to one day choose to have decent icons back again. :-)

Though a more stylised icon (but not flat) wouldn't be a bad thing.

New Post: Changing the Snippet Title

mmanela — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:04:56 GMT

When you open the snippet in the snippet editor you can just change the title in the top bar.

New Post: Changing the Snippet Title

tonyhessex — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:14:27 GMT

Is there a means of changing the snippet title without going in to the snippet file and changing the xml and then rebuilding ?

Thanks

Tony

New Post: VS 2012 and SQL snippets

michaelbreyes — Thu, 09 May 2013 19:00:10 GMT

I don't know if it was always SQL_SSDT but that is what VS 2012 is currently looking for. It ignores snippets where the language="SQL".

New Post: VS 2012 and SQL snippets

mmanela — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:39:21 GMT

OK, so the change is snippet designer just need to change the default language of sql snippets to sql_ssdt ? Was this language always sql_ssdt or did that change ?

New Post: VS 2012 and SQL snippets

JasonConway — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:25:43 GMT

Thanks, for this.

It would be great if this change could be made and my SQL life will be happier.

New Post: Snippets not activating while editing

mmanela — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:58:19 GMT

Are you sure you set the shortcut field for the snippet in the porperties window?
Did you try restarting vs? You shouldn't need to but its good to check.

New Post: Snippets not activating while editing

roschler — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:56:47 GMT

I installed Snippet Installer using the vsix file. I created a new snippet as per the tutorial and saved the snippet file in:

{user dir}\Visual Studio 2012\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets

When I type the shortcut in the editor, in this case "header", I do not see it in the auto-complete list. What do I need to do to make it work?

Thanks,
-- roschler

New Post: VS 2012 and SQL snippets

michaelbreyes — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:18:56 GMT

I'm using Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 version 4.5.50709.

By default, the snippet folder it is watching for My Code Snippets is at:
C:\Users\<USERNAME>\Documents\Visual Studio 11\Code Snippets\SQL_SSDT\My Code Snippets
(It is using SQL_SSDT rather than SQL as part of the folder name)

Also, if you view the XML of the snippet created by Snippet Designer, it is showing Code Language="sql" rather than Code Language="SQL_SSDT". If you manually change a saved snippet to "SQL_SSDT" (and make sure the snippet is in a folder watched by VS) it shows up in the list of SQL snippets.

If you can make these 2 changes then SQL snippets should work in VS 2012. Thanks!

New Post: File New Templates installed

tsdragon — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:24:39 GMT

Here are the templates. You should unzip into your Item Templates folder (usually %UserProfile%\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\Item Templates). It will create files in two subfolders: Visual Web Developer\VisualBasic and Visual Web Developer\CSharp.

Test carefully. Snippet Designer seems to have a problem sometimes with using an auto-recovery version of the snippet file instead of the correct one, resulting in a loss of changes.

New Post: File New Templates installed

tsdragon — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:24:18 GMT

Test carefully. Snippet Designer seems to have a problem sometimes with using an auto-recovery version of the snippet file instead of the correct one, resulting in a loss of changes.

New Post: File New Templates installed

albu77 — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:17:31 GMT

I'm interested to test your work around, how do we preoceed?
Regards
Alain

New Post: File New Templates installed

mmanela — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:34:36 GMT

Sure I would love to see it

New Post: File New Templates installed

tsdragon — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:29:23 GMT

I have figured out how to create a Code Snippet template that (sort of) works with Web Site projects. It has some limitations, but works at least well enough to create snippets using the File->New File menu item that will open in Snippet Designer.

Limitations:

It does not work with the "Export as Snippet" context menu. You will get an empty snippet. You have to cut-and-paste the code into the snippet. However, this does give you a quick way to create a new snippet, bypassing the File->New File dialog.
Due to limitations of Visual Studio, it cannot create new snippets in the normal location (usually "%UserProfile%\My Documents\Visual Studio 20xx\Code Snippets"). It creates a "My Snippets" folder in the root of your web project, and stores them there. You can either add that folder to Snippets Manager using "Tools/Code Snippets Manager/Add..." or copy them to the Visual Studio location. For web site projects they need to go in the "Visual Web Developer\My HTML Snippets" or "Visual Web Developer\My JScript Snippets" subfolders.

If you want the template contact me or post here.

New Post: Not working with VS 2012 SP1

tony_n — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 09:24:06 GMT

I think I have the same issue - but I might have a workaround for this. You need to open the snippet designer before opening the file you want to edit. My environment is a VS 2012 installed on a Windows 8 machine.

To reproduce:

Start VS 2012
Open a .snippet file
VS 2012 go to not responding

The workaround:

Start VS 2012
Open a random .cs (or any other code file).
Mark some code and execute the command "Export as snippet".
Open the .snippet file you want to edit.
The file is opened without any issue.

btw: The snippet designer is a great tool !

New Post: Make C# the default language for snippets?

roschler — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:06:05 GMT

Hello mmanela,

Sure. I just opened an issue for the default language topic.

However, I need to do some more testing with the indent issue (2nd topic). I just created another snippet and this one does indeed insert the snippet text at the current indentation level. Another snippet I created earlier did not and I need to figure out why in case it is something I am doing wrong.

-- roschler

New Post: Make C# the default language for snippets?

mmanela — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:36:39 GMT

There is currently not a way but this would not be a hard feature to add.
This is a good feature suggestion.

Would you mind filing issues for both of these?

New Post: Make C# the default language for snippets?

roschler — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:32:12 GMT

Great plug-in, thank you!

Is there any way to make C# the default language when creating a new snippet? I often forget to alter the selection in the language drop-down box from the default of C++ to C# before I save a snippet.

Also, is there any way to have a snippet insert itself at the current indent level of the document, instead of the indent level of the text entered into the snippet?

New Post: How to make a new line after enter?

mmanela — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:48:46 GMT

In the snippet editor if you right click you will see an option called something like "Insert $end$ marker". This will tell VS where to place the cursor after the snippet is inserted.

New Post: How to make a new line after enter?

chobo2 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:53:46 GMT

I created a simple snippet but what I find is once I create the snippet and hit enter my cursor goes back to the start or my snippet.

When I use a MS snippet and hit enter it goes to the next line. How can I do that with my snippets?