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copied!<p>Following up on Josh's answer. This VS Macro will search StackOverflow for highlighted text in the Visual Studio IDE. Just highlight and press Alt+F1</p> <pre><code>Public Sub SearchStackOverflowForSelectedText() Dim s As String = ActiveWindowSelection().Trim() If s.Length > 0 Then DTE.ItemOperations.Navigate("http://www.stackoverflow.com/search?q=" & _ Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(s)) End If End Sub Private Function ActiveWindowSelection() As String If DTE.ActiveWindow.ObjectKind = EnvDTE.Constants.vsWindowKindOutput Then Return OutputWindowSelection() End If If DTE.ActiveWindow.ObjectKind = "{57312C73-6202-49E9-B1E1-40EA1A6DC1F6}" Then Return HTMLEditorSelection() End If Return SelectionText(DTE.ActiveWindow.Selection) End Function Private Function HTMLEditorSelection() As String Dim hw As HTMLWindow = ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.Object Dim tw As TextWindow = hw.CurrentTabObject Return SelectionText(tw.Selection) End Function Private Function OutputWindowSelection() As String Dim w As Window = DTE.Windows.Item(EnvDTE.Constants.vsWindowKindOutput) Dim ow As OutputWindow = w.Object Dim owp As OutputWindowPane = ow.OutputWindowPanes.Item(ow.ActivePane.Name) Return SelectionText(owp.TextDocument.Selection) End Function Private Function SelectionText(ByVal sel As EnvDTE.TextSelection) As String If sel Is Nothing Then Return "" End If If sel.Text.Length = 0 Then SelectWord(sel) End If If sel.Text.Length <= 2 Then Return "" End If Return sel.Text End Function Private Sub SelectWord(ByVal sel As EnvDTE.TextSelection) Dim leftPos As Integer Dim line As Integer Dim pt As EnvDTE.EditPoint = sel.ActivePoint.CreateEditPoint() sel.WordLeft(True, 1) line = sel.TextRanges.Item(1).StartPoint.Line leftPos = sel.TextRanges.Item(1).StartPoint.LineCharOffset pt.MoveToLineAndOffset(line, leftPos) sel.MoveToPoint(pt) sel.WordRight(True, 1) End Sub </code></pre> <p>To install:</p> <ol> <li>go to Tools - Macros - IDE</li> <li>create a new Module with a name of your choice under "MyMacros". Or use an existing module.</li> <li>paste the above code into the module</li> <li>add a reference to the System.Web namespace (for HttpUtility) to the module</li> <li>close the macro IDE window</li> <li>go to Tools - Options - Environment - Keyboard</li> <li>type "google" in the Show Commands Containing textbox. The SearchGoogleForSelectedText macro should show up</li> <li>click in the Press Shortcut Keys textbox, then press ALT+F1</li> <li>click the Assign button</li> <li>click OK</li> </ol> <p>This is all taken from Jeff Atwood's <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000428.html" rel="noreferrer">Google Search VS Macro</a> post, just modified to search StackOverflow instead.</p>

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