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I am just going through the "Building custom UI elements using add-ins" walkthrough. ArcGIS integrated development environment (IDE) is installed. No problems creating the ArcMap Add-on project until i get to the part where i am suppose to RIGHT-CLICK in the editor window and select the ArcGIS Snippet Finder...

There is no ArcGIS Snippet Finder on the shortcut menu that pops up (see attached)

An example of what i should be seeing is here: http://help.arcgis.com/en/sdk/10.0/a...0000036s000000

Where is the Snippet Finder?

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Do you have the Desktop and Engine SDK installed on your box (is that what you mean by "ArcGIS integrated development environment (IDE) is installed")? – Chad Cooper Oct 25 '10 at 20:32
Yes Installed. (The ArcGIS Visual Studio IDE Integration Framework is an optional installation feature included with the ArcObjects software development kit (SDK) for .NET) More here:help.arcgis.com/en/sdk/10.0/arcobjects_net/conceptualhelp/… – Jakub Oct 25 '10 at 20:42
Is it possible to install the SDK without the Snippet Finder? If so would you recommend re-installing? – Jakub Oct 25 '10 at 20:45
I notice you are using VS Express...could that have anything to do with it? – Chad Cooper Oct 25 '10 at 20:51
Apparently VS Express is fully supported. Perhaps not? – Jakub Oct 25 '10 at 21:04

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Saw a few posts about this on the ESRI forums. This one in particular mentions:

for Visual Studio Express 2008/ArcGIS 10; - in VS, click on Tools>Code Snippets Manager - Click on Add... and browse to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common 7\IDE\VBExpress\Snippets\ArcObjects - Click OK and OK - ArcObjects will now appear in the "Insert Snippet" context menu

Does that work?

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Thanks Simon. This seems to be the VBExpress version of the functionality although one can hardly call it a "Finder". (No my problem is finding the snippets without the search option) I have to admin my disappointment with ESRI in this regard and what they claim to be a "replacement" for VBA. VS Express is nowhere near, it seems more and more obvious to me that a full version of VS is required in order to migrate VBA to Add-Ins. – Jakub Oct 26 '10 at 12:59
Simon, do you have any idea where I could find a 'list' of available snippets? – Jakub Oct 26 '10 at 13:29
Found it. ArcObject->Mapping – Jakub Oct 26 '10 at 13:44
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Not sure if this was the case for you but, I read on the ESRI forum that for 9.3 they suggested a reinstall the SDK if VS2008 is installed after the SDK.

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I installed VS Express first then ArcGIS 10 – Jakub Oct 26 '10 at 18:37

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