The Find In All Projects feature allows you to find all the occurrences of a string within any scope, including all the projects of a group (which Visual Basic does not allow). Furthermore, all the occurrences are shown at the same time in a treeview instead of one by one.
MZ-Tools offers the following ways to search a string in the source code:
- The Tools | MZ-Tools | Find... menu.
- The MZ-Tools | Find... context menu of a code window.
- The Find button on the MZ-Tools toolbar.
- The shortcut customized in the Options window, Shortcuts tab.
The Find window is the following:
This window is very similar to the Find window of Visual Basic. You can use the following settings:
- Find Whole Word Only: To find whole words (excluding occurrences within a string).
- Treat the character "_" as word separator: If you have checked the previous setting to find whole words only, this setting allows you to set whether the character "_" is considered as a word separator (as the Find feature of Visual Basic does) or not. For example, if you are searching the string "Command1" as a whole word, if this setting is not checked the event declarations such as "Command1_Click" will not be included in the results.
- Match Case: To consider or ignore the case.
- Use Pattern Matching: This setting allows you to use the characters "?" and "*" as wildcards.
- Exclude Comments: To ignore occurrences inside comments.
The results are shown in a Results window.
Remarks:
- This feature works not only at design-time (while coding) but also at debug-time (while debugging the application, although only using a keyboard shortcut).
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