MSN Desktop Search indexes C# files!

posted Tuesday, December 14, 2004 8:27 PM
I was very pleased to see that MSN Desktop Search indexes C# files.  That in itself makes it worth installing instead of Google Desktop Search (does GDS support indexing C# files yet?).
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# re: MSN Desktop Search indexes C# files!

Tuesday, December 14, 2004 10:25 AM by Jason Mauss    
What would you search your C# files for exactly? I can't think of a use for doing that.

# re: MSN Desktop Search indexes C# files!

Tuesday, December 14, 2004 11:12 AM by Steve    
I have a bunch of code that I've written over the years. I often times remember some code that I wrote on a previous project. Perhaps the code has a snippet of code that uses a particular class or namespace, fire up MSN Search enter the class name in the search box and begin searching. Maybe it's just me but it seems useful to search code files, heck I deal more with .cs files then .doc files.

# re: MSN Desktop Search indexes C# files!

Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:43 PM by Dennis v/d Stelt    
Shameless plug:
<a target="_new" href="http://bloggingabout.net/dennis/">http://bloggingabout.net/dennis/</a>

Last item has a link to a company that has a GDS hack.

# re: MSN Desktop Search indexes C# files!

Tuesday, December 14, 2004 3:14 PM by Minh T. Nguyen    
There is Google Desktop Search Plus that someone outside Google wrote, where you can add your own custom file extensions to be indexed. So, I used that to add even my VB6 code or even .csproj and .sln files.

<a target="_new" href="http://www.trivex.net/">http://www.trivex.net/</a>

Minh T. Nguyen.

# re: MSN Desktop Search indexes C# files!

Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:58 PM by Steve    
I had a feeling there had to be something out there, thanks for the links!

# re: MSN Desktop Search indexes C# files!

Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:20 PM by David    
Copernic Desktop Search has a feature where you list &quot;additional text file types&quot; to index. Very easy to add .cs, .config, .asmx files etc.

I did it and I like it.

# re: MSN Desktop Search indexes C# files!

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:43 AM by VJ    
Nice! I was looking for this on google desktop search but iam sure someone will come up with that as well. Kudos to MSN, was expecting it though.

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