I often use the string search feature for an entire solution in VS2008. Is there a way to improve its search speed by getting VS2008 to index all the source code and config files, similar to how Google Desktop index files?
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Though I don't think it is possible to do within visual studio you may want to use WinGrep, or another grep tool to do this sort of search instead.
Matthew Vines
2009-09-08 20:30:15
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This is not a supported feature of Visual Studio. The find in files feature simply goes through the files searching for the specified text and does not take advantage of any indexing.
It is possible to search using other 3rd party components using and indexed database though.
JaredPar
2009-09-08 20:30:34