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    <p>Today I was actually wondering why I've stuck with it for so many years without actively complaining about it. Doing a <em>"search &amp; replace in all files and folders of a solution"</em> is something I quite regularly need to do, esp. when refactoring tools fail me. Unfortunately, <em>"all folders and files"</em> means <em>"some projects and some other files"</em>. Notably, unconnected files in solution folders, complete web sites and csproj/vbproj/sln files are skipped. </p> <p>Also, just searching often reveals more hits than replacement replaces (for instance, a csproj is only replaced when its project is unloaded).</p> <p>Ok, enough complaining: anybody aware of a good plugin or a nice valuable trick that can do a <em>real</em> search and replace through all files and folders of a solution? Something I can rely on?</p> <p><em>(edit)<br> PS: after some more thought: having your system under Subversion or other source control system will make a full search only really valuable when the folder-list could contain a filter of exclusions, i.e., exclude all .svn files and dirs. Unfortunately, as far as I know, that's not possible with the supplied solution.</em></p>
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    1. COI've used Visual Studio forever, and have never had these problems, at least not since 2002. You're doing something wrong and blaming the tool.
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    2. COPossibly. Try this: open a solution that has a web site (mind you: not a web project!) with VB and C# code folders, plus some normal other projects. Select one of the normal projects. Hit Ctrl-Shift-H, select Entire Solution and replace, say, your company name. You'll see that unopened files of the web site will not be replaced. When focus is on the web site, some things are, some things are not replaced. Non code files (txt, log) are usually not searched. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I had this in 2005 and 2008. I consider the S&R a "smart" search (like Windows S&R) being too smart.
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    3. COSame issues arise with auto-refactoring method renaming, which is very buggy as well and has ever been, with the exception of C++. The problem is with lazy invocation of methods on untyped variables or where the method names are strings (i.e., quoted events in ASPX/ASCX, reflection etc). I can understand this going wrong, the type system cannot know. But then doing a replace all S&R should fix things, but it doesn't. Most notably with web sites (again: not web projects).
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