Reasons why Visual Studio Sucks #2: No real project find [SORTA-KINDA REDACTED]
In any sane IDE, when you do a project-wide search, you get a search result summary and a result count, allowing you to refine the search if it’s too general, and else jump directly to the relevant files.
In Visual Studio, Project Find works like file find. When you click Find Next, you just get thrown to the next file containing the phrase. No summary, no order, no find count. Just haphazard teleportation through your project, with no overview and a complete sense of loss of control. Euggh.
Update: It seems Visual Studio does indeed have Project Find. It looks completely botchered, though: No result highlights, no file grouping, and no options to refine the search without redoing it entirely. But it’s certainly better than nothing! ctrl-shift-F to bring it forth. Thanks to Eddie Willman and Patrik Sjöberg for sending this in.
(ps. No, I’m not actively trying to make XCode look cool and fancy, and Visual Studio look like crap: that drop shadow is added automatically when you screen shot a single window in mac os)