Dan Sellers's WebLog : Visual Studio 2005

Snippy—a cool UI tool for building Code Snippets

dansellers — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:02:00 GMT

As I mentioned in my last blog entry I think Code Snippets is one my favorite features in Visual Studio 2005. However, I found creating snippets by marking up XML—at times—can be cumbersome until now that is! Snippy is a simple but cool UI tool for building all of your snippets in VB.NET, C#, J# and XML snippets. Snippy is free and can be downloaded from: http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=b0813ae7-466a-43c2-b2ad-f87e4ee6bc39

New C# Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2005

dansellers — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:42:00 GMT

I would have to rank Code Snippets as one of my favorite features added to Visual Studio 2005. But the code snippets that were initially available only for Visual Basic developers can now be downloaded for C# developers as well at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/codesnippets/default.aspx

Don't forget to check out the code snippet community for much even more cool and useful snippets: http://www.gotcodesnippets.net/.

MSDN Forums Integrated with Visual Studio 2005

dansellers — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:22:00 GMT

If you have been using Visual Studio 2005 at least once you will have probably noticed that the Start Page has changed and receives RSS feeds from http://msdn.microsoft.com for WebCasts. Further yet if you have not noticed there is also a new menu called "Community".

Community allow you to search for or ask technical questions to the msdn forums-- http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ -- that you can not find an answer for in Visual Studio help system. Just select "Community->Ask a Question" from the Visual Studio menu. And of course you can also provide direct feedback at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=52&SiteID=1.