{"id":236409,"date":"2022-01-26T07:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T15:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=236409"},"modified":"2022-01-26T07:35:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T15:35:32","slug":"code-search-in-visual-studio-is-about-to-get-much-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/code-search-in-visual-studio-is-about-to-get-much-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Code search in Visual Studio 2022 is about to get much faster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visual Studio 2022 Find in Files is already more than 2x faster for 95% of searches compared to Visual Studio 2019. We wanted to make code search even better. I am excited to announce that Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 3 introduces indexed Find in Files to make your search experience even faster! To try out the performance improvements yourself, download Visual Studio 2022 Preview:<\/p>\n

Download Visual Studio Preview<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n

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Side-by-side video of VS 17.0 (left) and VS 17.1 Preview (right) searching about 50,000 files in 1,560 projects<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

How has Visual Studio 2022 Code Searching Improved Compared to Visual Studio 2019<\/h3>\n

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The above graph illustrates the major improvements we have seen in search performance for the 95th<\/sup> percentile of searches executed since Visual Studio 2019. We see that 95% of searches in 17.1 Preview 3 find all matches to a search query in just over 1 second! For many search scenarios, this search experience will now feel instantaneous\u2026any developers dream.<\/p>\n

How does 17.1 Preview 3\u2019s indexed Find in Files work?<\/h3>\n

To make sure indexed searching is enabled, go to Tools > Options > Environment > Preview Features and verify that “Enable indexing for faster find experience” is checked!<\/p>\n

From then on, at solution load or folder open, Visual Studio launches a satellite process \u2018ServiceHub.IndexingService.exe\u2019 and transmits a list of files to it to index. The indexer then scrapes through the files and constructs an index of all of the n-gram<\/a>s contained in each file.<\/p>\n

When the user performs a \u2018Find\u2019, this index is used to prune files from the search so that it completes more quickly.<\/p>\n

The indexing process avoids impacting solution load, build, and user activities by running at Below Normal operating system priority<\/a> outside of the main Visual Studio process.<\/p>\n

Try it out and share your feedback!<\/h3>\n

We would love to get your feedback on our updated search performance so please give it a try and let us know what you think! You can share any feedback via Developer Community<\/a> to help us make Visual Studio better for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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