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InnerWorkings develops .NET code search engine

By David Worthington

August 14, 2009 — Sometimes a developer can find a solution quickly by looking at code. InnerWorkings, a company that offers .NET training services, has developed a code search engine for its customers to reference as they program.

CodeBox, available today, is a free text search engine that uses metadata to retrieve relevant and validated code samples, said InnerWorkings solutions architect Michael O’Brien. It is presently only available to InnerWorkings customers, but it could become public, he said.

The CodeBox repository contains over 1,000 code samples for every .NET framework and is as current as .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, O'Brien said. Customers can see the context code was used in and download code samples to a file to open in Visual Studio.

There are several popular code search engines on the Web, such as Google Code, Koders and Krugle, but those provide search results with mixed quality that are not always relevant, he said. "They are not always professionally written and reviewed, and may be a deprecated method or API. We have multiple levels of review here, and the code has all gone out to customers."

Code search engines look at class and method names, but fail to extract the meaning from the source code, O'Brien added. Citing Windows Communication Foundation as an example, he said, "There are little bits that have to go together."

Code search is an important tool for developers because navigating around large frameworks is becoming a tricky task, he said. "It is barely possible to become an expert on one little section of a framework."

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