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In Visual Studio 2010 and earlier, the Find in Files feature remembered your selection for the "Look in" option.
In 2012, the option sometimes gets reset to "Current Document", making it only search in a single file. This can be annoying, particularly when you don't notice it's done it.
Is there any way I can force this setting to stick with what I want it to be (generally "Entire Solution")?
As an example of the problem, highlight a few lines of text in a source file and bring up the Find in Files box. It will have changed the "Look In" setting to "Selection". Close it, deselect the text and do Find in Files again. The setting will have silently reverted to "Current Document". Doing this in 2010 and earlier doesn't change the setting.
There's another description of the problem here.
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The new experience is available by searching for “Find in Files” or “Replace in Files” in Visual Studio search (Ctrl+Q by default). You can also get to these commands with Ctrl+Shift+F and Ctrl+Shift+H respectively.
In Solution Explorer, right-click the project and choose Properties. In the side pane, choose Build (or Compile in Visual Basic). In the Configuration list at the top, choose Debug or Release. Select the Advanced button (or the Advanced Compile Options button in Visual Basic).
Find in Files allows you to search a specified set of files. The matches Visual Studio finds are listed in the Find Results window in the IDE. How the results appear depends on the options you choose on the Find in Files tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
Ctrl + Shift + F – Find in Solution Sometimes you want to search across your entire solution. You can double-click each item in the “Find Results” window to navigate to that instance of the search term you searched for.
I find that its intermittent (but more often that not) and that its a potential bug. For me it resets to "All Open Documents" which could be far more disastrous.
Do you have any plugins installed as I was thinking of raising this as an issue with vs if its not a 3rd party tool affecting it?
I have the following installed:
I guess we should rule out some of these first?
Anyone else find this who has no extensions installed?
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