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Introducing Bing Code Search for C#

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Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#

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C# and .NET get a bad rap for being created by Microsoft. But one thing that can't be ignored is how polished their development tools are. I absolutely love coding in Visual Studio.

It pains me if I am honest. Our CMS is built on .NET and it's like an uphill battle selling it as it's on IIS and it's .NET. I have played around with the idea of reworking it into an open source language and open source database but I would miss Visual Studio and the language a lot.

I don't get all the hate?

Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#

#13

If you want more info about the extension let us know. There's alot of cool contextual and semantic pieces in there that makes it a smarter search

I'm wondering if there is a risk of being shown code snippets that represent "Do NOT do the following: ..."? Otherwise, really cool project!

Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#

#14

If you want more info about the extension let us know. There's alot of cool contextual and semantic pieces in there that makes it a smarter search

I assume there's no intention to open source this? Now I'm thinking about making something like this for IntelliJ :)

Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#

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post #9
post #5

C# and .NET get a bad rap for being created by Microsoft. But one thing that can't be ignored is how polished their development tools are. I absolutely love coding in Visual Studio.

The dev tools are good, though I think some of the documentation on msdn needs a lot of cleanup/improvement. It is not uncommon to get routed to older API versions or different languages. That said, it is getting better over time. This tool definitely helps with C#. One thing I like about Apple developer docs (on developer.apple.com) that MSDN doesn't have (at least didn't last time I looked) is the ability to get a…

You need to click on the "Export" button, at the top right corner of the page:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/export/help/?returnU...

Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#

#18

If you want more info about the extension let us know. There's alot of cool contextual and semantic pieces in there that makes it a smarter search

Hi, how do you check if the snippet it pulls from stackoverflow works? Static analysis?

I'd guess so. It's pretty easy with roslyn these days.

Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#

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post #5

C# and .NET get a bad rap for being created by Microsoft. But one thing that can't be ignored is how polished their development tools are. I absolutely love coding in Visual Studio.

It pains me if I am honest. Our CMS is built on .NET and it's like an uphill battle selling it as it's on IIS and it's .NET. I have played around with the idea of reworking it into an open source language and open source database but I would miss Visual Studio and the language a lot. I don't get all the hate?

I'd guess it's because a lot of techies remember how 10 years ago MS exploited their monopoly to force their products onto the entire world?

fortunately those days are over and they've become mostly irrelevant, but everyone knows that given half a chance they'd do it again...

Re: Introducing Bing Code Search for C#

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post #7

If for nothing else - it shows MSFT's commitment to the language, to the platform and to the framework.

No, it shows MSFT's commitment to future revenue and profit. If they were really committed to the language, they would open-source it.
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