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The ISESnippetObject

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An ISESnippet object is an instance of the Microsoft.PowerShell.Host.ISE.ISESnippet class. The members of the $psISE.CurrentPowerShellTab.Snippets collection are all examples of ISESnippet objects. The easiest way to create a snippet is to use the New-IseSnippet cmdlet.

Properties

Author

Supported in Windows PowerShell ISE 3.0 and later, and not present in earlier versions.

The read-only property that gets the name of the author of the snippet.

# Get the author of the first snippet item
$psISE.CurrentPowerShellTab.Snippets.Item(0).Author

CodeFragment

Supported in Windows PowerShell ISE 3.0 and later, and not present in earlier versions.

The read-only property that gets the code fragment to be inserted into the editor.

# Get the code fragment associated with the first snippet item.
$psISE.CurrentPowerShellTab.Snippets.Item(0).CodeFragment

Shortcut

Supported in Windows PowerShell ISE 3.0 and later, and not present in earlier versions.

The read-only property that gets the Windows keyboard shortcut for the menu item.

# Get the shortcut for the first submenu item.
$psISE.CurrentPowerShellTab.AddOnsMenu.Submenus.Clear()
$psISE.CurrentPowerShellTab.AddOnsMenu.Submenus.Add('_Process', {Get-Process}, 'Alt+P')
$psISE.CurrentPowerShellTab.AddOnsMenu.Submenus[0].Shortcut

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