No matter how much I searched, I could not find one for a simple "documentation block." You know, the one with the ".Synopsis", and ".Example" that we are supposed to use in our scripts, but never do? Perhaps I can make the world a better place by figuring it out and allowing others to use it. Now you have no excuse to not document your code better, you are just three clicks away from having the "DocuComment" block created for you!
You will need to put the code below in to a file with an extension of ".snippet" and import it into VS.
(Details of this can be found at: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9ybhaktf(v=vs.100).aspx )
DocuComment.snippet :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet"> <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0"> <Header> <Title>DocuComment Block</Title> <Shortcut>docucomment</Shortcut> <Description>Code snippet for a comment block.</Description> <Author>Bryan Loveless bryan.loveless@gmail.com</Author> <SnippetTypes> <SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType> <SnippetType>SurroundsWithStatement</SnippetType> </SnippetTypes> </Header> <Snippet> <Declarations> <Literal> <ID>param1</ID> <ToolTip>DocuComment</ToolTip> <Default> .SYNOPSIS synopsis of script, overall idea .DESCRIPTION description of overall script, more detail than synopsis .PARAMETER parameternamehere parameter description, if required, possible values .PARAMETER path parameter path .EXAMPLE example of script use, return behavior. .EXAMPLE another exmample if there are more. This can be repeated for as many examples as you want .NOTES other misc notes, perhaps permissions needed, dates of script. </Default> </Literal> </Declarations> <References /> <Code Language="PowerShell"> <![CDATA[<# $param1$ $selected$ $end$ #>]]> </Code> </Snippet> </CodeSnippet> </CodeSnippets>