Search MSDN, CodeProject, StackOverflow, DZone and more from within Visual Studio 2010 with “Vingy” (Visual Studio + Bing = Vingy)

amazedsaint's .net journal - Introducing ‘Vingy’ Add-in for VS2010 – Search StackOverflow, CodeProject, DotNetKick etc easily from with in Visual Studio

“For some time, I was thinking about developing a web search plug-in for Visual Studio, so that I can search the web (mainly sites like StackOverflow, CodeProject, MSDN etc) in a non intrusive way, with out leaving the IDE.

Here we go, meet Vingy 1.0 – A simple, but effective add in for Visual Studio 2010 so that you can search the web in a non intrusive way, and can filter results based on sources.

Getting used to Vingy

You can bring up Vingy either by clicking View->Other Windows –> Vingy Search Window from the Visual Studio IDE, or just by high lighting some text in the document and then clicking Tools –> Search Selected Text (Ctrl + 1).

Searching with Vingy is pretty straight forward. You can initiate a Search in two ways.

• By typing the text in the Vingy search box and pressing ‘Enter’ or by clicking the ‘Go’ button
• By highlighting some text in the editor when you type in Visual Studio, and then pressing Ctrl + 1

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Small, simple, quick and easy… Four of my favorite things. :)