Assign code snippet to keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio

Question

Anyone knows how to assign key shortcut to specific code snippet?

I would like to assign for instance CTRL+K,CTRL+J to a #region snippet.

Answer 1

The closest solution I've found for this is to copy the intended snippet to your local snippets directory.

e.g. For VS-2015: %Userprofile%\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets

Then open it in a text editor and change the shortcut to something quick and simple such as '1'.

Now to use it, all you need to do is press Ctrl+K+S > Enter > 1 > Enter

Additionally, you can make it even quicker by changing the hotkey for the surround-with command. (Tools > Options > Keyboard > Edit.SurroundWith)

Answer 2

Type a < and then type your snippet shorcut(your XML file Name) and then press tab.

you can get more info from this link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/xml-tools/how-to-use-xml-snippets?view=vs-2017

for example i have a code snippet which i've set xml file name and its shortcut to flog

when i want to use it directly to my code i do like this:

<flog and press tab it Works.

Answer 3

For me the fastest solution was to Import a Folder named "1", then Add the snippet (my name was "block") and mark it in the 1-Folder.

Then i can insert the snippet by <Ctrl+K,X> + <Enter> + <Enter>

First Enter chooses 1 (the Folder with MY snippets) and the second Enter chooses my most used snippet (must be alphabetically first)

Answer 4

I think you may want to try adding a <Shortcut> tag inside your MySnippet.snippet file

<Header>
   <Title>Square Root</Title>
   <Author>Myself</Author>
   <Description>Calculates the square root of 16.</Description>
   <Shortcut>sqrt</Shortcut>
 </Header>

For details check out : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/walkthrough-creating-a-code-snippet?view=vs-2019#description-and-shortcut-fields

To add a shortcut, add a Shortcut element within the Header element