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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Blue Brown Green Red Violet Yellow Message: Forum code is on. Html is off. [quote][i]Originally posted by pbrown[/i] [br]I've been using VAX under VS2008 after some time with SlickEdit. There is one SlickEdit feature that I've been missing a lot. SlickEdit has a tool window very similar to VAX's "Find Symbol" dialog -- it lets you search for symbols by name incrementally. One thing it can do, which VAX can't, is directly find symbol references from this tool window. What I have to do under VAX is: * select the symbol whose references I want to find and go to its definition * manually navigate to put the cursor in the word containing the symbol definition * use my shortcut for VAX's Find References I've found myself wanting to do this roughly 5-10 times a day. It would be either a "Find Symbol References" dialog that was nearly identical to "Find Symbol" dialog, or to simply add a "References" button to the existing dialog. Pat p.s., FWIW, I really like VAX's Find Symbol feature -- it's much faster than SlickEdit's when using my project with a huge number of symbols. SlickEdit's "Find References" does feel quite a bit faster than VAX's. VAX easily beats the default Visual Studio "Find References", though. [/quote]   Check to include your profile signature. Check to subscribe to this topic.