Searching for a file in Visual Studio 2008
Ok, some of you might find it bad that I'm triyng to relate Eclipse
with Visual Studio too much, feature to feature. But I can't help it,
having used Eclipse for the past 3 years.
So I was trying to find a functionality like "Open Resource"
(CTRL + SHIFT + R) in Eclipse. I've been using Visual Studio for a good
4 months now and I found myself searching by using ctrl + shift + f
(entire solution) and hope that something would match the keyword I
type in. The latter is useful if you want to fnd a particular occurence
of your search parameter, but I only wanted to find a file in our 10+
or more projects in one solution.
The solution was to append >of in the search box followed by a few words of the filename you're searching for.
>of <SPACE> <SOMETHING_THAT_THE_FILE_BEGINS_WITH>
A list of possible matches would appear below the search box.
Reference:
http://www.alteridem.net/2007/09/11/quickly-findopen-a-file-in-visual-studio/