Does Visual Studio 2008 utilitize Windows Search for "Find in Files"

Question

or any of the other search options?

I usually disable all background indexing on my dev machines, but Find in Files feels slower on my latest dev machine when Windows Search is disabled, and I wonder why. I am unable to find any references to whether or not VS can leverage an existing Widows Search index for the files it is searching.

Answer 1

I don't believe it does, no (and to my knowledge, it never has).

You could check out Entrian Source Search, which is an addin that gives you fast searching of Visual Studio code. It builds a full text index, like Windows Search does. (Full disclosure: I'm the author.)