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Integrating grepWin into Visual Studio

The simplest way to integrate [grepWin][grepwin] into Visual Studio is to [add it as an external tool][vsextern]. If you [assign it a keyboard shortcut][kbshortcut] then, well, you've got grepWin at your fingertips and getting to it becomes super fast without needing to resort to the silly old mouse! 🐭

However, simply launching grepWin from within Visual Studio means you still need to provide the starting search path. Ideally you can get grepWin to use the project or solution path automatically. Looking into the extended

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// Author: Atif Aziz
// License: This code is released by "Author" into the public domain.

using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

static partial class StaTask
{
    public static Task RunAsync(Action action) =>

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Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Security;
[Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString([Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData]::Unprotect([Convert]::FromBase64String((type -raw (Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE foobar))), $null, 'CurrentUser'))

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<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFrameworks>net8.0;net7.0;net6.0</TargetFrameworks>
    <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
    <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>

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// http://www.quaetrix.com/Build2013.html

using System;

// For 2013 Microsoft Build Conference attendees
// June 25-28, 2013
// San Francisco, CA
//
// This is source for a C# console application.

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# Copyright (c) 2014 Atif Aziz. All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
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# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

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Command	Description
ASSOC	Displays or modifies file extension associations.
ATTRIB	Displays or changes file attributes.
BREAK	Sets or clears extended CTRL+C checking.
BCDEDIT	Sets properties in boot database to control boot loading.
CACLS	Displays or modifies access control lists (ACLs) of files.
CALL	Calls one batch program from another.
CD	Displays the name of or changes the current directory.
CHCP	Displays or sets the active code page number.

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MoreLINQ Signatures

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obj	object
bool	bool

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security.Cryptography;

static class Program 
{
    static void Run(IEnumerable<string> args)