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Find Combo Box

It wasn’t until I took over testing the editor that I learned that the Find combo box runs Visual Studio commands. And it wasn’t until I found Tip 6.16: How to have fun with the Find combo box that I learned that the Find combo box can combine keyboard shortcuts and command arguments.

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Find Combo Box Runs Commands

This section describes all the things you can do with the Find combo box to run commands, like getting help for a particular keyword, opening a file without any UI, or setting a breakpoint on a given function name.

Tip 6.16: How to have fun with the Find combo box

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