Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Layouts

With the Find in Files window showing, you can change the Look In: combo box to anything except for open docs and current docs.  This will enable the Look at these file types: option to select what files to search for. And for more advanced searching… There’s an ellipse “…” button next to the Look…

We all edit. Coders really are just really smart typists right? We make mistakes. We edit other peoples stuff, we have brain farts. These tricks teach you to delete fast and accurate. Delete words or whitespace groups forward or backwards. I use this all the time. These are tricks you should add to you daily…

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Press the keyboard chord [ALT]+[F3],[S] (bound to Edit.StopSearch) to stop a background search, also known as a Find in Files. You can also press the Stops a background Find toolbar button on the Find Results window. This worked fine in my test with VS2008, but isn’t working on my tests with VS2010. If/When I find an answer…