Of course Visual Studio has its own Find in Files functionality (Ctrl+Shift+F) and this works OK, I would like to see a Visual Assist version of the same.
What new functionality would the VAX version add? Pretty much what VAX Find References added to the Visual Studio Find All References feature is what I would like to see here. In other words:
Results organized by file and method
Results displayed with VAX syntax highlighting
Each line in results window can show source code tool tip
And why do we need such a feature? Mainly so that users can easily search for literal strings in the code base. As is, I have to use Ctrl+Shift+F to do this and the results output is not nearly as rich.
I apologize if this feature already exists and I somehow missed it.
I am not quite sure what you mean / want here. We are considering adding a form of Find References that searches comments, so you can search for a comment tag like "TODO", and get a standard Find References Results list back:
As long as what you're describing here can search more than just comments, that's exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for. Comments is a good use case; another might be searching for a literal string in code. For example, with the gaming engine we use, events are sent as literal character strings (such as "OnEnemySeen"). It would be really useful to find all places where this event is sent in the system.
Currently I could get Visual Studio search results for this using Ctrl+Shift+F, but I'd rather see the standard Find References Results type of output instead.
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you about this. I have updated the case with this point. This makes sense, and I can see how this would be a useful enhancement.
Need "Find Literal" capability
Posted - Jan 22 2010 : 12:05:15 PM
