findinfiles

Make Visual Studio's Find in Files default to the project directory?

I have many different branches/checkouts of the same project code on my development machine. Each one is virtually the same except for various maintenance bug fixes or improvements I'm working on within each project. The problem comes when I use Find in Files inside Visual Studio to search through my code. VS2005 stores the last search ...

Visual Studio 2008 Find in Files not working..!

Hello, I am having a really bizarre problem. Find in Files feature in VS2008 always finds zero matches when looking in the Entire Solution and gives the error 'No files were found to look in' when looking in Current Project. Looking in Current Document works just fine. I've tried the ctrl+scroll lock thing with no success. Also, my fol...

Find in files is slow when targeting a solution

My VS 2010 solutions has two projects in it. When I use the "Find in Files" dialog and search for a string in any of the individual projects I get the results back instantly, if I target the solution, there is a 2 second delay. Does anybody know what else VS is doing when searching in a solution (besides searching the 2 projects)? ...