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Mar 19, 2025
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Find the IDE features you need with GitHub Copilot and Search

Leah Tran
Leah Tran

Ever find yourself needing to locate a specific menu item, command, or option in Visual Studio, but you don't know its name or location? Do you often struggle to find detailed instructions on using certain features effectively? Now, there’s a solution to get you the information you need right in the IDE. Visual Studio now makes it easy to...

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Dec 31, 2024
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Dock the Code Search window in Visual Studio 2022

Leah Tran
Leah Tran

Ever felt frustrated with the search window cluttering your workspace? The latest feature in Visual Studio 2022 gives you more control over the behavior of the Code and Feature Search window, making your search experience smoother and more efficient. Some users have shared that the search window feels intrusive, interrupting your work by app...

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Dec 30, 2024
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Go to line anywhere with Code Search for Visual Studio 2022

Leah Tran
Leah Tran

Finding the exact line of code where an issue is occurring can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. Whether you are debugging an error on line 43 of a file or diving into a specific section of code, you can efficiently jump to the right places with this newest addition to Code Search. In Code Search, you can now jump to a specific line ...

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Dec 17, 2024
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Refresh your Find results

Leah Tran
Leah Tran

Are you tired of having to repeatedly launch the Find window in Visual Studio to update your search results? Whether you've just refactored some code or pulled recent changes, having to redo a search to get updated results is no longer necessary. With the new refresh option, you can now update your Find results without the hassle of starting over. ...

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Nov 21, 2024
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Making you more productive with Visual Studio v17.12

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

The 12th update to Visual Studio 2022 is packed with lots of exciting new features that users have been asking for! Here are some of the awesome highlights from this release that are some of my personal favorites. For all the details, be sure to check out our release notes. Copy from the Error List You see an error in the Error List that you don'...

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Oct 1, 2024
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Visual Studio 2022 – Recent performance enhancements 

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

Visual Studio 2022 continues to be faster with each version. In this blog post we will highlight a couple of the more significant enhancements you’ll experience in 17.11, such as a more efficient C# language service, faster conditional breakpoints and symbol searches in C++. Reduced CPU usage by C# language service Code Indexing In 17.10 we reva...

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Sep 11, 2024
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Search scoping helps you find what you’re looking for

Leah Tran
Leah Tran

If you're working on a large and complex solution, you might find yourself overwhelmed by the number of results when you use code search in Visual Studio. You might be looking for a specific class, method, or variable, but end up scrolling through pages of irrelevant matches. Wouldn't it be nice if you could narrow down your search scope to only th...

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Jan 17, 2024
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17.9 Preview 3 brings exciting changes to Code Search

Leah Tran
Leah Tran

With the release of 17.9 Preview 3 dropping today, we are bringing some exciting enhancements to the Code Search (also known as All-In-One Search) experience. Since our last update with the search experience, we’ve been hard at work refining the experience and ideating ways to add to the experience. Now, you can search for any word or string of cha...

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Sep 5, 2023
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Keep your casing with Case-preserving Find and Replace

Leah Tran
Leah Tran

The Visual Studio search experience is getting a new feature that allows users to find and replace text without having to worry about different casings. For example, a method parameter `catalogItemId` and object property `CatalogItemId` have the same name but different capitalization but should both be replaced by something like ‘productId’ with th...

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May 25, 2023
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All-In-One Search available in 17.6

Leah Tran
Leah Tran

The All-In-One Search experience was first introduced in 17.2 Previews, and we’ve been refining its quality since. The new search merges code and feature search capabilities into one UI, so you can go to one place to find the things you need. Real-time results and a preview of the results speed up the process to get you to the right place. You can ...

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