Visual studio 2008 find in files not working

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Visual Studio find doesn't find all possibilities Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 11 months ago. Active 1 year, 9 months ago. Viewed 8k times. Note that in all the situations above, I am searching the Entire Solution. Does anybody have any experience with this? If so, how did you fix it? Improve this question. Timwi David Morton David Morton Add a comment.

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Alex Szabo 3, 2 2 gold badges 20 20 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Roman Starkov Roman Starkov In the last couple of years I all but quit using the simple "Find Next" and have started using Find All instead.

Repair VS, if that fails try reinstalling. DavGarcia DavGarcia 18k 14 14 gold badges 56 56 silver badges 95 95 bronze badges. Right click on MSO. Typically it looks like If you open it, towards the end of the file you may find an error code and some human readable explanation of the failure. Run regedit. If key is missing, add it and set LastProduct value to Simplest way is to create a new. Setup does not have UI, so please simply wait about 5 minutes or watch msiexec activity in the Task Manager.

You now need to apply Service Pack to the component. Improve this question. CJBS 14k 5 5 gold badges 81 81 silver badges bronze badges. Pedro Pedro 11k 5 5 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 39 39 bronze badges.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. In your find dialog, expand the Find Options section. Improve this answer. Nick Craver Nick Craver k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Pedro - If only I could count the number of times I've done this James Campbell James Campbell 5, 2 2 gold badges 33 33 silver badges 54 54 bronze badges.

Once installed, open it. To keep several search results, select the Keep Results button after each search. Then, when you search for something else, the results are shown in a new tab. You can keep the results of up to five searches. If you've already got five search results showing, the next search will reuse the oldest search result tab. In Visual Studio and later, you can set Visual Studio to always keep results. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported.

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Any additional feedback? Important If you are using Visual Studio version Choose Find in files from the list of results. Find what To search for a new text string or expression, specify it in the Find what box. Search box To search for a new text string or expression, specify it in the Search box.

You can select or clear the following option s : Match case - Use this option to make sure that your search is case-sensitive. Important The Expression Builder button appears next to the Search box only if you've selected the Use regular expressions checkbox. Expression Builder If you want to use regular expressions in your search string, select the adjacent Expression Builder button that's next to the search box.

Warning If you choose the Entire Solution or Current Project options, project and solution files are not searched.