I’m going to assume that most of you reading my blog are passionate about software and do some developing in your spare time. If you’re a consultant, you probably do most of your work on a laptop -- perhaps using the same laptop for office and hobbyist development. Others among you might have a laptop and a desktop, or maybe you’re like me and have a laptop and multiple desktops. All with Visual Studio and ReSharper on them – of course. About 2 years ago I got really big into ReSharper Live Templates – I started writing them for...

Just what exactly are these snippets? I believe that snippets are an underused feature built into Visual Studio. This post is my attempt at comparing the two tools I have used for snippet creation, and hoping to make more developers out there aware of just how easy they are to create and use in your existing projects. I am by no means an expert with either of these tools, but I think that is the point: they take a few minutes to create and can be reused for immediate time savers. Much to my surprise there exists a...