Code Searching with Sando, because "Code search sucks and Find & Replace is from the 80s..."

CodePlex - Sando: A Fast Local Code Search Engine with Open APIs

"Sando: A Fast Local Code Search Engine with Open APIs
Code search sucks. There's no auto-correct or suggestions and results are returned as an unranked, plain-text list. This VS Extension aims to make code search a modern tool by leveraging Lucene to index and search all languages and artifacts, returning results in a rich UI.

Sando in 8 slides...

Top Ten Things that Suck about Code Search:

1. Unranked results
2. No suggestions
3. No auto-correct
4. No fuzzy matching
5. No word stemming
6. Results returned as plain-text
7. Indexes keywords like "using"
8. No preview in results
9. Hard to refine results
10. Regular expressions are fragile

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Visual Studio Gallery - Sando

Because Find & Replace is from the 80s

Code search sucks. It doesn't support google-style queries and results are returned as an unranked, plain-text list. This VS Extension aims to make code search a modern tool by leveraging Lucene to index and search all languages and artifacts, returning results in a rich UI.

Supported Languages: C#, C++, C

[demo] [source]

David C. Shepherd - Code Search in Visual Studio - Video Blog

Ever wonder what Sando's code search looked like in action? This brief video (less than three minutes) will give you a quick overview of Sando's abilities and its advantages over Visual Studio's built-in search.

I love the idea behind this, using a modern full text indexing and searching engine as a backdrop for code search... I also really love that David's released it as OSS.