Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 has a new feature called Find As You Type. This is a great way to speed up your work by automatically finding the correct code or text in your project. To use Find As You Type, first open your project in Visual Studio 2005. Then, on the Tools menu, click Options. On the Options dialog box, click General. In the Text Editor tab, under Find and Replace, select Use Find As You Type. Now when you type a word or phrase in the editor window, Visual Studio 2005 will automatically search for that word or phrase in all of your projects and open the appropriate file. If you want to search only within a specific project, you can add that project name to the list of search paths on the Options dialog box. ..
To start using this feature, just hit Ctrl + i once, and you will see the cursor change to an arrow with binoculars. At this point, you can just start typing, and Visual Studio will automatically start finding.
It’s tough to show this off in a screenshot, but here’s the basic idea:
To start an “Incremental Search” you just hit Ctrl + i, but there’s more keys that work with this:
Ctrl + i – Start Incremental Search \ Find Next Instance Ctrl + Shift + i – Find Previous Instance Esc – Cancel Search Backspace – Works just like you’d expect.
This is a heck of a lot more quick than using the normal file search dialog.
