Snippet Editor for Visual Basic 2005 Beta 2

One of the cool new productivity features that you'll find in VB 2005 is Code Snippets.  These are snippets of code, to perform various different common actions.  In addition to the large set of snippets that will ship with VS 2005, there is a also an extensibility model so that you can add your own and/or team/company snippets to the the standard collection.

While this is well documented, it still requires defining the snippet and all of its attributes in XML format.  In order to avoid that, download the free Snippet Editor for Snippet Editor for Visual Basic 2005 (Beta 2) and get yourself an easy to use editor to define your new snippets.

Here is the description of this tool:

The hundreds of code snippets that ship with Visual Basic 2005 certainly help your productivity. But what about developing your own library of custom snippets? With the Visual Basic Snippet Editor you can use this Windows Forms application to rapidly build and test your snippets.

• Visually define custom replacement parameters for your snippets
• Add custom metadata such as title, author and description to your snippets.
• Easily define keyboard shortcuts for your snippets to provide fast access.
• Define reference assemblies your snippet use

Note also that this is a shared source project, so you can have an active role in this at well.  Check out the details at the VB Snippet Editor Workspace.