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Jeremy Hutchinson
Jeremy Hutchinson

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Visual Studio Tips - Solution Explorer Search

Solution Explorer Search has been in Visual Studio for a while, but there are a few features that I think many developers overlook (myself included). Here are a few that you might have missed.

By default, the search will search Ctrl+; both the file names and the contents. This is what we want most of the time, but it is possible to search just the file names.

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Some other filters you can apply to your search are Open Files Ctrl+[,O and Pending Changes Ctrl+[,P. These can be particularly useful when you’re working on a feature that requires changes across multiple files in different layers of your solution. In the gif below I show these filters being used via the UI.

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