Have searchable C# code snippets in VS "left the building"?

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According to http://codesnippet.research.microsoft.com/[], I should be able to enter three forward whacks followed by a question within Visual Studion, such as:

C#

///how can i create a filestream?

...and then press the tab key, and an Intellisense-like drop-down list will display with possible answers/ideas. For me, though, in VS 2013, doing that does nothing. Why? Did it never get added to VS 2013? Do I have to do something to enable it? Or what?

Posted 30-Oct-15 5:56am

B. Clay Shannon

Updated 30-Oct-15 5:57am

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Leo Chapiro · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-30T06:10:00

You need to download and install this add-on: Developer Assistant[^]

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Developer Assistant for Visual Studio combines the functionality of two popular Visual Studio extensions into one: Sample Browser and Bing Code Search. This updated feature enables developers to find and reuse over 21 million of code snippets and code sample projects from within the Visual Studio IDE. The plugin is now also enabled with Bing contextual search that currently helps with root causing compiler errors and code lookup.