Snippet Manager

… is an award winning add-on for the free PowerShell editor PowerGui, which enables you to comfortably manage PowerShell code snippets. Its free and completely written in PowerShell.

Snippets?                                               

If you never worked with snippets before, here is a short explanation: Snippets are code fragments or short scripts that you save for later, so that you can use them again in another script. You’ve probably done that before by opening an old script and copy parts out of out. By saving such parts as a “snippet” you can do this much easier. And this is just the start.

Once you assigned a name to your snippet, you can easily paste them in a script, using the “snippets”-menu entry in the context menu of PowerGui Script Editor. In addition to that, you can replace parts of the snippet code (e.g. function names, variables or anything that you probably would change when you use that code again) with a placeholder. This placeholder will be highlighted when you paste the snippet to your script, and you can simply put in a new value for the placeholder.

Features                                                 

Snippet Explorer – copy, paste, rename, delete snippets and snippet categories
Snippet Creator – change existing snippets, create new snippets, advanced placeholder functions (auto-creation of placeholders, delete existing placeholders with auto-replacement to the default value, auto highlighting of placeholders etc.)
Store Room – quick and easy deactivation (and reactivation) of snippets to clean up your PowerGUI snippets menu
Snippet Locations – support for multiple snippet locations from your network or local computer in snippet explorer. (support of manual UNC paths)
Fulltext Search – fulltext indexing of all snippets, instant search in the snippet Code, Description, Name and Author.
and much more…

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Download                                              

You can download Snippet Manager here.
There is a comprehensive help file included, but you can also download it separately.

Be aware that PowerGUI v.2.3.0 or higher is required for this add-on.

Video Tutorial                                     

This is an in-depth video tutorial for beginners. Its about version 0.9 and it still covers all the basic functions, but you may also want to read the help file to find out about all the improvements and new features in the latest version.

You can watch the tutorial here:

or in better quality and with selectable chapters here: (min. screen res 1280×768)

Version History                                    

v1.1.0
Improvements/Features:

• Faster Snippet Processing
• Improved Syntax Highlighting

Bugfixes:

• various Bugfixes

v1.0.2
Bugfixes:

• various Bugfixes

v1.0.1
Improvements/Features: (in detail see here)

• Snippet Locations! You can now add multiple snippet folders from your network or local computer to the snippet explorer. (You can also manually add UNC Paths.)
• Fulltext Search! Snippet Manager creates a fulltext-index of your snippets, so you can very quickly search in the snippet Code, Description, Name and Author.
• Deactivation and Reactivation of Snippets! Easily deactivate (and reactivate) snippets to clean up your PowerGUI snippets menu.
• No UAC-Popup Anymore
• Enhanced Syntax Highlighting
• Faster Snippet Processing (up to 8x faster)
• New Option: restore last size and position of the Snippet Manager window at start
• New Icons

Bugfixes:

• Fixed: After file operations all Subfolders of the snippets path would be expanded
• Fixed: Paths with read-only access caused errors
• Fixed: The ShowInWindowsExplorer Function couldn’t find a snippet or folder if there was a special character in the name
• minor bugfixes

v0.9.2
Improvements/Features: (in detail see here)

• SnippetManager now has an installer
• Most of the commands/menue items now support keyboard shortcuts (the available shortcuts are shown in the tooltip of the item)
• Automatic update check implemented (optional; can be turned on/off at first start and in the options menu)
• Future Updates can now be downloaded and installed from inside SnippetManager
• A standard value for the “Author”-field can be set (in the options menu), which will then be used for all new snippets
• Link to the Video Tutorial and a “Contact Developer” (mailto) entry added to the Help-Menu

Bugfixes:

• Fixed: placeholders with equal names could be created
• Fixed: under certain circumstances a folder could be copied into a subfolder of itself
• Fixed: snippet path of PowerGui_Pro could not be found

v0.9.1
Improvements/Features:

• No more limitations for auto-created placeholders, anything (but spaces) can be turned into a placeholder
• Placeholder names can be changed subsequently, changes will be replicated to all instances in the snippet
• Improved status-bar

Bugfixes:

• Fixed auto-word selection caused problems while selecting text in the codebox
• minor bugfixes

v0.9.0

• Initial Release