RE: Problem with "Find in Entire Solution"

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From: Kostadin Kostov (KostadinKostov_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:07:03 -0800

Why don't you select *.* for a pattern.
And be sure to Look In : Entire Solution

"Nick Gilbert" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if I've broken my VS.NET installation or if there has
> always been a bug of some sort, but basically Find in Entire Solution
> (ctrl-shift-F) isn't finding strings in my solution's project files
> which I KNOW are there.
>
> For example, if I search for Page_Load (which is in many many files) it
> finds nothing.
>
> The pattern I'm using is:
>
> *.cs;*.htm;*.html;*.aspx;*.ascx;*.asp;*.xml;*.css
>
> ...but despite the *.cs it's only searching files which have one
> extension. Ie it will search section.cs, but not default.aspx.cs - even
> though *.cs matches the latter.
>
> The workaround is to add *.aspx.cs and *.ascx.cs to the pattern, but I'm
> sure I never needed to do this before.
>
> Why has this broken? Can somebody else please let me know if the above
> pattern normally searches .aspx.cs files in Visual Studio 2003.
>
> Also if anybody has any clues as to why this has stopped working, please
> let me know.
>
> Nick...
>

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