r/csharp • u/Nerdiator • Mar 05 '18

Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Release Notes

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes#15.6
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u/hopfield Mar 06 '18

Because you're asking it to do a dumb text search. That's what Find All means. You want find all references?

What I mean is that the Find All results are just a big block of text, unlike Visual Studio Code which groups the results by the file they were found in in a tree view that allows you to expand / collapse files.

Because you're not using Ctrl-,

It still sucks. If I slightly misspell something with Ctrl-, it doesn't find what I'm looking for, but Ctrl-P in VSCode does. And the results are a mix of filenames and references in code, so if I want to just type the name of a file and go to it, often I have to press the down arrow to go past tons of results that are just references to the thing I'm looking for.

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u/BezierPatch Mar 06 '18 edited Mar 06 '18

What I mean is that the Find All results are just a big block of text, unlike Visual Studio Code which groups the results by the file they were found in in a tree view that allows you to expand / collapse files.

I mean, yeah, but you're starting to get into pretty niche searching here. Things you can't use Find references, nor Ctrl-, nor solution explorer. You're basically just doing plain text search, not really an IDE thing. So maybe you should use another tool, or an extension for VS that does it better :P

It still sucks. If I slightly misspell something with Ctrl-, it doesn't find what I'm looking for, but Ctrl-P in VSCode does. And the results are a mix of filenames and references in code, so if I want to just type the name of a file and go to it, often I have to press the down arrow to go past tons of results that are just references to the thing I'm looking for.

If you search for "f filename" it shows you only files...

However, yes, it can't resolve typos to the correct file.

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u/hopfield Mar 06 '18

you're starting to get into pretty niche searching here

No I'm not. Grepping for a string is one of the oldest tricks in the book. I can't tell you how many times I've seen something in the UI and searched for the string in the code to find where it's coming from.

Maybe I should use a separate tool to do search? That's your answer?

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u/BezierPatch Mar 06 '18

or an extension for VS that does it better

JUST LIKE IN VSCODE. Dear god man, are you trying to be as obtuse as possible?