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I can't stand Visual Studio 2008's "Find" or "Find and replace" functionality, does anyone know of a better 3rd party solution that integrates into visual studio? At this point, I'd gladly take any "Find" utility, visual studio integration or not.
Some of the things VS.net 08 wont do that I'd like to do:
If anything else, just post your favorite "Find" app and I'll check them out
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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.
Search across files. VS Code allows you to quickly search over all files in the currently opened folder. Press Ctrl+Shift+F and enter your search term.
Press Ctrl+Shift+F and enter in your search term. Search results are grouped into files containing the search term, with an indication of the hits in each file and its location. Expand a file to see a preview of all of the hits within that file.
Once the window is open, you can either click between the different tabs, or you can use Ctrl + Tab or the assigned keyboard shortcuts of Ctrl + T and Ctrl + Q to switch between the code search and feature search tabs.
Find is brilliant in VS 2008.
Do CTRL+SHIFT+F to bring up the advanced find window.
Then you can do everything you asked about and more.
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Entrian Source Search http://entrian.com/source-search/ is a Search addin for Visual Studio. It builds a full-text index of your files, so searching is always near-instant. The results are syntax-highlighted, and it supports filtering by file type, filename and directory.
Full disclosure: I'm the author (and I wrote it because I too was frustrated by Visual Studio's own search features ;-).
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