Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Searching Documents

The text editor window provides an extensive search-and-replace capability. Three primary methods of searching are supported: Quick Find (ideal for finding text fragments within the current document or set of open documents), Search In Files (ideal for finding text in a file residing anywhere within a folder structure), and Find Symbol (ideal for searching on objects or members by name). All of these search mechanisms are triggered through the Find and Replace window, which you can launch under the Edit menu or with the Ctrl+F shortcut; a drop-down button on the Find and Replace window controls the mode of the window, which directly maps to the three search methods just itemized.

This same window is used to perform text substitution. ...