{"id":2973,"date":"2009-10-26T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T08:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/2009\/10\/26\/toolbox-search\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:42:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:42:16","slug":"toolbox-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/toolbox-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Toolbox Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"me_small\" border=\"0\" alt=\"me_small\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/me_small_3.jpg\" width=\"54\" height=\"77\"> Hi, my name\u2019s Josh and I\u2019m a developer on the VS Shell team.&nbsp; Among other things, I\u2019m responsible for the Toolbox.&nbsp; In VS 2010 Beta2, we\u2019ve added the ability to search for controls in the toolbox by name.&nbsp; To use it, put focus in the toolbox (by clicking in it, for example) and start typing the name of the control you want to find.&nbsp; As you type, the selection will move to the next item that matches what you&#8217;ve typed so far.&nbsp; The text you&#8217;ve typed is shown in the status bar, like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"toolbox_search\" border=\"0\" alt=\"toolbox_search\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/toolbox_search_3.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"133\"><\/p>\n<p>You can hit Backspace if you mistyped a character, or Tab to go to the next match for the current string.&nbsp; To cancel the search, you can hit Escape, move the selection, or click on another window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, my name\u2019s Josh and I\u2019m a developer on the VS Shell team.&nbsp; Among other things, I\u2019m responsible for the Toolbox.&nbsp; In VS 2010 Beta2, we\u2019ve added the ability to search for controls in the toolbox by name.&nbsp; To use it, put focus in the toolbox (by clicking in it, for example) and start typing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":255385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[287,13],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-studio","tag-tips-and-tricks","tag-visual-studio-2010"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Hi, my name\u2019s Josh and I\u2019m a developer on the VS Shell team.&nbsp; Among other things, I\u2019m responsible for the Toolbox.&nbsp; In VS 2010 Beta2, we\u2019ve added the ability to search for controls in the toolbox by name.&nbsp; To use it, put focus in the toolbox (by clicking in it, for example) and start typing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}