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On my client workstation, my installation of VS2012 came with a stack overflow integrated search bar that sits alongside the quick launch. It looks like this:

stack overflow

The problem with this is that it is very cool, I want it added to my personal machine, but no one knows how it got onto my machine or where to find it. I know this question hasn't been asked on stack overflow before because visual studio told me so, included in the image below

stack overflow

The only extensions that I currently have installed to visual studio are included in the screenshot below and are consistent with all of my colleagues' installs. That's why it's a bit puzzling for me to have this while they don't.

stack overflow

Does anyone else have this? Where did you get it?

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K. Alan Bates
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    Oh..hey. This question showed up immediately in the integrated Stack Overflow search. http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv20/Tombstone67/vs-stack-overflow-question_zps51b7946c.png – K. Alan Bates Dec 16 '13 at 21:13

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It's the Web Search extension:

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a0c66cb5-5d6d-46ab-b169-273dec17eb24

or maybe VS Commands:

http://vscommands.squaredinfinity.com/blog

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  • I thought it might be the Web Search Extension, but it doesn't seem to be. First, I don't have the Web Search Extension installed; second, the Web Search Extension seems to be driven by a context menu. What I have is an everpresent, integrated Stack Overflow search bar – K. Alan Bates Dec 16 '13 at 20:55
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    Then VSCommands is what you're looking for. These are the main two that are out there. – Howard Renollet Dec 16 '13 at 20:56
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    Ok. I have VSCommands (It's listed in the bottom screenshot of my post) I installed it earlier for VS2013 (before I posted the question), but I wasn't prompted to restart visual studio. When I shutdown and restarted, my [Stack Overflow] integrated search bar showed up. – K. Alan Bates Dec 16 '13 at 21:04