VS Tip - Incremental Search in Visual Studio

Tuesday, July 22 2008

image If you're looking to navigate through the current file in Visual Studio, the typical approach is ctrl-F, which is the shortcut for Find and brings up a dialog like the one at right to locate instance of a string.  Bertrand just let me know about another shortcut, ctrl-I, which does Incremental Search.  The nice thing about this is that it's faster (there is a measurable delay before ctrl-F loads) and doesn't pop up a window that gets in the way of seeing your code.  After pressing ctrl-i, as you type the cursor will move to the next string that matches what you've typed.  Finding additional instances of the string is simply a matter of hitting F3.

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Ivan Suhinin said on 23 Jul 2008 at 2:01 AM

Hi, Steve.

You can find more shortcuts on VS2005-2008 here: isuhinin.blogspot.com/.../visual-studio-2

This list contains this Ctrl + I shortcut and a plenty of others.


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Mohammad Azam said on 23 Jul 2008 at 1:28 PM

Hi,

Nice tip!


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