Code Snippets Manager in VWD 2008

I want to use snippets rather than clumsy typing during my talk at the Victoria .NET code camp on Saturday. New to snippets, I read the online documentation about accessing the Code Snippets Manager. Go to Tools --> Code Snippets Manager they say. Easy, right? Nope! I don't have that item in VWD. Does anyone else?

Sheesh! I thought I had the default Web development settings in Visual Studio 2008's Visual Web Developer environment.

At any rate, unable to find a way to open the Snippets Manager from a menu, I went into the keyboard mapping scheme for hints and searched for commands containing "snippet". Sure enough, up came Tools.CodeSnippetsManager, currently assigned to Ctrl+K, Ctrl+B. I used the shortcut chord and realized that have never seen that snippet tool before!

If you're like me and don't have Tools --> Code Snippets Manager in VS 2008 VWD, do this:

From the Tools menu, click Customize.

1. In the Categories list, click Tools.
2. With the Customize dialogue box still open, open the Tools menu.
3. Back in the Customize dialogue box, in the Commands list, drag Code Snippets Manager and drop it on the Tools menu.
4. Click Close on the Customize dialogue box.

Why am I the last person on Earth to discover things like this? <grin>