Sunday, November 13, 2005

"Google Search VS.NET Macro"

Coding Horror: Google search VS.NET macro

"Here's a handy little Visual Studio .NET macro which searches for the currently highlighted term in Google. The search is launched as a new tab within the IDE when you press

Alt+F1

I know what you're thinking: you've seen this macro before. Yeah, but this one goes to eleven. It actually works with any highlighted text in the IDE -- including highlighted text from the Output window..."


This is a pretty cool little VS macro. What's also cool is that Jeff provides complete instructions to install/add it to your macro collection.

Make sure you check out the comments as there are suggestions on how to make the search results appear in a new top level IE window (instead of the default, a new VS tab), to switch the search engine to MSDN, etc...

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