March 2005
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
19h 23m
English
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Search the Internet from Visual Studio #60
Chapter 7, Help and Research
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registry settings that add a search function for the Safari online library. The
next time you search help, Safari will appear just like MSDN Online or the
CodeWise Community sites. Search results from the Safari library can be
seen in Figure 7-10.
You can look forward to a number of these search enhancements being
added as we get closer to the final version of Visual Studio 2005.
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Search the Internet from Visual Studio Hack #60
Visual Studio’s help searches can extend well beyond the boundaries of the
IDE and your hard drive. Learn how to make it consult online sources of
wisdom.
The Internet has become an indispensable tool when researching program-
ming tasks. If you have ever tried programming on a disconnected machine,
you will quickly realize how frustrating it can be when valuable tools like
MSDN Online and Google are not available. The Visual Studio team has
released a power toy called VSOnlineSearch that allows you to search the
Internet from directly inside the text editor, passing whatever text you have
selected to the search engine of your choice.
The first step to using this power toy is to download the tool from http://
www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide and then install the tool using either the .msi or
.exe file included in the .zip file. Once you have installed the add-in, you will
find a new menu available ...
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