Yesterday I released Snippet Designer 1.2 Beta.
Codeplex Page: http://snippetdesigner.codeplex.com/
Visual Studio Gallery Page: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/B08B0375-139E-41D7-AF9B-FAEE50F68392
This release contains several bug fixes but more importantly it now includes support for Visual Studio 2010.
I am super excited for this since now you can install the Snippet Designer from inside of Visual Studio using the new extension manager. Just open up the extension manager and search for “Snippet Designer”.
Then you just need to install it and restart Visual Studio.
Enjoy!
The xUnit .Net codeplex page lists one useful Visual Studio code snippet for creating a Fact. As you can tell I am fairly fond of code snippets so I created a few more which I use when writing xUnit.net facts. These are one line snippets that I find very convenient when writing my assertions.
Below is a table which shows the shortcut you use to access the snippet and the code the snippet generates
| Shortcut |
Snippet |
| ae |
Assert.Equal($expected$,$actual$) |
| ane |
Assert.NotEqual($expected$,$actual$) |
| an |
Assert.Null($actual$) |
| ann |
Assert.NotNull($actual$) |
| at |
Assert.True($actual$) |
| af |
Assert.False($actual$) |
I have included a zip containing these snippets. Enjoy!
I just released Snippet Designer 1.1. This is not a major release but just some bug fixes and often requested changes to make the snippet designer more useful.
Some of the most notable changes are:
- Languages Service are turned OFF by default now. Since I was unable to figure out a way to host the C# and VB language services in the snippet editor without causing fake errors in projects I decided to give the users an option to turn them on or off. If you are ok with the fake error you can turn this back on but since it really annoyed me I have it off. I plan in a future release to provide some basic color coding outside of the language service so you can at least have color coded code.
- Many more aspects of the plug in are now configurable through the options menu under Snippet Designer. you can now set the location of the snippet index, set preferences for which snippet languages you would like to appear in the snippet explorer.
- Several bug fixes to how the highlighting of replacements works and performance improvements with it also.
Hopefully these changes will make it much more useful so please download it and try it out here.
The future…
My plans for the future are still up in the air but some of the things I would like to add are:
- More bug fixes and more feature enhancements suggested by many helpful users on the Snippet Designer Codeplex page.
- Ability to color code snippets without using the language service. I have a few options here I have been looking at.
- Create a website to host snippets and allow you to consume and publish from Visual Studio to this website.
I don’t know how much time I will have to commit to any of these but hopefully I will be able to get more work done on this.
Thanks!
