The Find and Replace window is not a dialog, but actually a tool window. Thus you can dock it to the side if you find it in your way. Right-click on the tool window Titlebar and select Dockable. Now the tool window can be docked using a docking target. Additionally, you can go to Window menu…
Did you know that you can search in Visual Studio using wildcards and regular expressions (in addition to the regular text search) right from the Find and Replace window? This short tip/trick video shows you how. Expand the Find options, and check Use: This will enable you to select either wildcards or regular expressions. With…
When you press [CTRL]+[F] for find, one of the nice features of Visual Studio is the context find that happens. The word/phrase that your cursor is currently on is forwarded to the “Find What” section of the dialog box. The thinking here is pretty simple, which is, you’re probably going to search for another instance…
Let’s say you are searching for some text and you already know about F3 and Shift+F3, so you want the [CTRL]+[F] Quick Find or the [CTRL]+[H] Quick Replace window to disappear after the first search. Go to Tools | Options | Environment | Find and Replace page, and check the Hide Find and Replace window…
You’re probably used to using [CTRL]+[F] to open the Find/Replace dialog. Did you know that [CTRL]+[H] will open directly to the Quick Replace dialog? The command is Edit.Replace, in case your keybindings are different. You’ll need to press the Replace or Replace All button to invoke the find and replace. Additionally, you can customize your find and…
Sometimes when you’re looking for something in code, it would be nice for the results to persist. Instead of routing the results to the standard find box, this tip / trick shows you how to add a bookmark to all of the result findings. Then you’re free to use the keyboard shortcuts around bookmarking to…
Just select some text (or just have the cursor on the word you wish to search for) and press [CTRL]+[F3]. [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[F3] will do a reverse search to find previous. Note that a [CTRL]+[F3] search uses the following options: Is case sensitive Searches hidden text Allows for partial matching Does not use regular expressions
After you search and find an item, [F3] will search and find the same item again. [SHIFT]-[F3] will find the same item, but will look behind your current cursor position. Obviously, you can also press the Find Next button on the Find and Replace window, if it’s open. One thing to note about [F3], is…
When browsing the “Visual Studio” search on twitter, I saw a post from @GamersOnlyOlder asking about debugging asp.net in a browser other than Internet Explorer. Are you forced to use Internet Explorer when debugging ASP.net applications? Absolutely not. This quick tip/trick shows how to browse and setup a default browser to use when debugging ASP.net…