Tab-Tab snippet expansion doesn't work in SQL Server Management Studio?

Question

In Visual Studio, you can invoke a snippet by typing its shortcut followed by tabtab. For example, typing proptabtab gives you this:

In SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), this doesn't seem to work. (I'm using SSMS 2012.)

In both environments you can type ctrlKX and then navigate through folders of snippets, but I find this far more clumsy.

Is there a way to make shortcut tabtab work in SQL Server Management Studio?

Answer 1

You can use a third party tool that will provide this functionality, for example the great SSMS Tools Pack, or SQL Prompt, or SQL Complete.