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When writing code in Visual Studio, you can find it’s essential to pull code samples from StackOverflow or MSDN. You may normally just ought to copy and paste the code over after which make some modifications so it fits in together with your previously written code. Now Microsoft is making it easier to do through Bing.

The Bing team announced today that it has worked with the Visual Studio and Microsoft Research teams to develop what it calls the Bing Code Search Visual Studio extension. As its name implies, it’s a brand new extension that uses Bing to locate “relevant code samples in Visual Studio giving you the power to check and add that code within the code editor.” The Bing team notes that searches are context sensitive so you’ll get samples that use an analogous variable names on your own code.

Bing says Code Search pulls from MSDN, StackOverflow, Donnetperls and CSharp411. Here’s the way it works:

Bing uses signals and metadata including project type and semantic context (e.g. C#/VB compiler) combined with our vast index to deliver relevant code samples directly into the Visual Studio experience. In a number of short clicks, you’ve a group of code snippets for review and replica into the Visual Studio editor without missing a beat.

If it’s good to see Bing Code Search in action, you may watch a video of it getting used here. Unfortunately, there’s no embed just yet, but I’ll update this story with one if Microsoft Research ever bothers to upload it to YouTube.

If you’re feeling your life can be greatly improved by using Bing Code Search, that you can download the extension here.

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