Visual Studio 2013 custom toolbar to insert code snippets

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Could anyone point me in the right direction here? I am adding a custom toolbar and I want buttons for lots of different code snippets. We use so many that it is impracticable to remember all the different shortcut commands for each one, and selecting from a menu takes longer than just clicking a button.

It doesn't really even need to be specifically for a code snippet as defined by Visual studio, just simply pasting some text to the editor window, however I was hoping to be able to have some that would work as surround snippets, which the normal code snippets do.

So, your question is basically: How to insert text in the active Code-Window with a VS extension? — frank koch
– frank koch, Commented Jul 22, 2014 at 18:00
Yeah I suppose that would be a better wording. I am too much of a noob to even know the correct language sometimes :D — Amazing Larry
– Amazing Larry, Commented Jul 23, 2014 at 18:49

frank koch · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-23 20:34:45Z

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You should call this:

(DTE2)base.GetService(typeof(DTE))

in the Initialize() method of the Package and save the resulting dte-instance in a field. When your button is clicked, you can use ((TextDocument)_DTE.ActiveDocument).Selection.Text) to retrieve the currently selected text, modify it and write it back as new selected text. Maybe you will have to cast the return value of the Selection-Property to TextSelection.

answered Jul 23, 2014 at 20:34

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Amazing Larry Over a year ago

Ahh excellent I was wondering how I was going to implement the surround functionality for the code snippets. And to simply paste in some text stored maybe in some XML somewhere? It seems like I would be able to call part of the code snippet functionality from a button rather than the built in method. Then I could use the normal way of creating a snippet xml file for the snippets themselves.

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