Mehul Harry's DevExpress Blog

I use Autohotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) with the following scriptlets ....

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; This first one searches Google when I use Ctrl+Shift+C
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^+c::
{
Send, ^c
Sleep 50
Run,% "www.google.com/search?q=%22" . clipboard . "%22"
Return
}

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; This next searches DevExpress when I use Ctrl+Shift+D
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^+d::
{
Send, ^c
Sleep 50
Run,% "http://Search.DevExpress.com?q=%22" . clipboard . "%22"
Return
}

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These work with the highlighted text from anywhere in windows. :)

This is a great tip, however, if you call this macro when in the Form Designer (not code document) you'll get an error!  Woops! :)

Hi Mehul,

Great post as usual.  I have a couple of options for people that want to launch the results in a new browser outside of VS.  Working with multiple monitors it is more productive at times to have reference materials in separate windows.

You can replace the two lines in the DXSearch macro with the following:

Diagnostics.Process.Start("firefox.exe", "search.devexpress.com & DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text)

This will launch the search result in firefox.  Of course if you want to use IE...then change it to: iexplore.exe.

I also use this same technique for searching google with a focus on microsoft.  You can just create another sub in your search macros to include this.  Here is the macro command for that.

Diagnostics.Process.Start("firefox.exe", "www.google.com/microsoft & DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text)

As far as external favorites go...this probably is one of favorites, simple but I use it all the time:

it.toolbox.com/.../visual-studio-macro-collapse-solution-explorer-18035

It closes the solution explorer outline...you know how that gets on large projects.

One more point to remember if you have any errors whatsoever in any of your macros, across subs, across classes, etc...none of your macros will work.  For people just getting into macros if your macros all of sudden stop functioning go into your latest macro changes and comment them out and slowly add them back until you find the problem.

This information is great.  It would be fantastic if you guys put up a section on the customer forums where you could discuss tips, etc based on different topics:

i.e. VS2008/macros

another idea would be to include sections like:

ASPxGridView/scripts/column manipulation

Hi Mehul,

I tried creating this macro on VS 2005 and then using it in my WinForms app's code behind but it didn't open up any browser. Does this work only for ASP.NET apps? (I don't think it would be limited to that but no such thing as a stupid question right?)

Thanks

function AutoSuggestControl(oTextbox /*:HTMLInputElement*/, oProvider /*:SuggestionProvider*/)

{

   this.cur /*:int*/ = -1;

   this.layer = null;

   this.provider /*:SuggestionProvider*/ = oProvider;

   this.textbox /*:HTMLInputElement*/ = oTextbox;

   this.init();

}

The error I am getting is in line "this.init();", the error is "Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object doesn't support this property or method". PLEASE HELP, and THANKS IN ADVANCE

great work Harry!!