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Bing Code Search for Visual Studio 2013 helps you find samples from StackOverflow, MSDN and more

Feb17
by on February 17, 2014 at 5:51 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Microsoft is supporting the developer community today with a new extension for Visual Studio 2013 called Bing Code Search. In essence, it allows programmers with any level of experience to find relevant code samples from repositories including MSDN, StackOverflow, Donnetperls and CSharp411.

So if you’re working within Microsoft Visual Studio, the company’s development environment for building apps, you can download the extension and then trigger it from the contextual Intellisense assistant with the option “How do I…” Type in your query, for instance “read a file line by line”, press enter and Microsoft will give you some options that are suitable for your project.

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“Behind the scenes, that query is securely beamed up to Bing along with contextual pieces that help us hone in on the fuller meaning of that query,” the company said in a blog post. “We use meta-data like the project type, semantic context and a few other sprinkles of Microsoft Research magic.”

While the extension could theoretically be used to hunt for code samples anywhere on the Web, Microsoft says the sites it has shortlisted should be “more than sufficient” for most queries.

You can grab the extension from the Visual Studio directory here.

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Microsoft taps DocuSign to let you digitally sign and send documents in Office 365

Feb17
by on February 17, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Microsoft and DocuSign have announced a deal that will see Office 365 users able to digitally sign and send documents using the service without ever needing to print, scan or copy a document on paper ever again.

The companies announced the move on Monday, with DocuSign’s Jesper Frederikson, general manager of EMEA, telling The Next Web that it’s just the start of things, with future features and integrations planned:

We’re taking two flagship cloud services and doing a tight integration, we’re not just doing it at a tactical level… It’s the launch of a strategic relationship that will see good functionality come out in the first iteration and we’re committed to continuing to innovate and bring even more functionality by integrating our respective services.

From today, the DocuSign application will be embedded directly into Office 365 so Word, Outlook, SharePoint Online or SharePoint Server (on-premise) users can sign and stamp documents from within those applications.

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As well as integrating across the platform, DocuSign has also adopted the Windows Azure Active Directory so customers can use single sign-on, rather than needing separate credentials to use the platform.

Documents are automatically saved in Microsoft’s recently renamed cloud storage service OneDrive.

Signing documents using DocuSign is free for all Office 365 users, and there’s the option to send up to five documents for free. If you want to carry on and send more digitally signed documents after that, you’ll need to pay up.

Frederiksen told TNW that pricing varies according to the size of the organization, but that an average small-to-medium sized business would end up paying somewhere around £300 – £400 per year for unlimited digital signing and sending of documents.

Confirmation of the integration comes just days after DocuSign is said to be looking to raise up to $100 million in a deal that values the company at more than $1 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal‘s sources. Clearly, an ongoing agreement with Microsoft for integration into platforms like Office 365 is hardly likely to hurt these talks.

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Ky. enrollment under Obamacare to hit 250,000 by month’s end

Feb17
by on February 17, 2014 at 4:08 pm
Posted In: Affordable Care Act, Around the Web, Beshear, Kentucky, Obamacare

With six weeks until the March 31 deadline, more than 231,367 Kentuckians have enrolled in new health coverage, including Medicaid and private insurance, through the state’s online exchange kynect.ky.gov. If the current rate of enrollment continues, more than a quarter of a million Kentuckians should be enrolled by the end of February. The state didn’t disclose how many people […]

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Ky. enrollment under Obamacare to hit 250,000 by month’s end

Feb17
by on February 17, 2014 at 4:08 pm
Posted In: Affordable Care Act, Around the Web, Beshear, Kentucky, Obamacare

With six weeks until the March 31 deadline, more than 231,367 Kentuckians have enrolled in new health coverage, including Medicaid and private insurance, through the state’s online exchange kynect.ky.gov. If the current rate of enrollment continues, more than a quarter of a million Kentuckians should be enrolled by the end of February. The state didn’t disclose how many people […]

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WikiLeaks now offers a search engine to help you find documents linked to any keyword

Feb17
by on February 17, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Searching WikiLeaks for documents about a particular topic, event or individual just got a little bit easier. The whistle-blowing site now offers a search engine where you can query its entire database of published documents for a specific phrase or keyword of your choosing.

Just like Google, you can also refine the nature of your search for more accurate and focused results. Filters allow you to request that Wikileaks ignore documents with certain words, or only if your search terms appear within the body of the page. A series of check-boxes, meanwhile, gives you the ability to find files from a specific WikiLeaks release, such as the Kissinger Cables.

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WikiLeaks was, until now, a daunting site for some people. A straight-forward search tool such as this one should go a long way to help newcomers leverage and learn from the mass of information that WikiLeaks now offers on the Web.

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