Is there a way (setting or extension?) to have the Visual Studio 2010 Find in Files feature append the search results (rather than replace them)?
I realize you can send the result to one of two result screens, but that is cumbersome, and wont work past two result sets.
Using SlickEdit in the past, It was nice to just append search results, and just scroll up.
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I'm trying to compare two versions of a VBA file which are placed on a TFS. The Diff Tool shows several changes, but there actually are none.
♪And they don't stop coming...
In fact, VS tries to beautify the code by changing it's case despite the fact that I turned the Pretty Listing feature off.
Example
Well, I've disabled literally EVERYTHING here
Note: VS does not change the files either on disk or TFS.
The question is how to make it stop. I can't find real changes when comparing files.
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I am looking to compare two databases using the Data Compare tool in Visual Studio. I've found a number of articles on how to do that, but I cannot get to the Data menu they are referring to in all those articles.
I want to know if there is a way to turn the data compare feature on in VS, so that I can actually see the Data menu and then proceed.
I found that the way to do data compare in Visual Studio 2013 is by using:
Tools->SQL Server->New Data Comparison/New Schema Comparison.
I was wondering if there is a way for Visual Studio's built-in search to only look in files that have been modified in a certain time frame.
I think it would be very convenient, especially when working with a large codebase where you don't really need to search for certain things in ancient code (or even code older than, say a month, even a week).
No. Not in Visual Studio 2010. Also not in Visual Studio 2012 (which includes the Quick Find feature from the Productivity Power Tools extension.)
You'll probably need to make do with Windows Search or a third party tool like Agent Ransack.
Is there any way to make visual studio sort files the same way that windows does, we have a number of scripts that are numbered ie. 1.sql, 2.sql ...100.sql.
In windows it shows up 1.sql,2.sql,3.sql...100.sql but in visual studio it shows up 1.sql,100.sql,2.sql....
Not really a big problem just slightly annoying when trying to figure out the next number to add.
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?
This adds instant full text search of all files in a VS solution.
Not free but cheap and is well worth the money. 30 day trial.
http://entrian.com/source-search/
Remap Ctrl+Shift+F to Entrian's Activate and you get what VS's Find in Files always should have been.
I'm using it in VS 2010, it says it works with 2005 and 2008 as well.
(I have no affiliation with the company).
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.
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.
I like searching using a tool called WildReplace .