Finally there is a great snippet designer add-in for Visual Studio. The Snipped Designer for Visual Studio 2008 is available for free on CodePlex. I have used version 1.1 some time and it works great.
The Snippet Designer 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 environment 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
More information can be found at http://www.codeplex.com/SnippetDesigner or download directly from the Releases page.