How to actually search all files in Visual Studio

Question

I am using Visual Studio   Say for instance I have a static public method named FooBar   in class Utils  Let s also say that I use this method in a lot of  aspx files   Let s say I change the method signature of FooBar   to FooBar string   and subsequently I d like to find all the instances of Utils FooBar so I can update them  Now let s say I go to the Solution Explorer search box  select  quot Search within file contents quot   and type  quot Utils quot    Despite the fact that I make Utils   method calls everywhere  the only thing that shows up is the Utils cs file   If I keep typing  quot Utils FooBar quot   nothing shows up  Right now  I am launching a cygwin window and using grep since normal windows search is pretty useless too   But it seems like there there must be an actual way of searching within all files in Visual Studio  Am I missing something

User · Answer

So the answer seems to be to NOT use the Solution Explorer search box.

Rather, open any file in the solution, then use the control-f search pop-up to search all files by:

selecting "Find All" from the "--> Find Next / <-- Find Previous" selector
selecting "Current Project" or "Entire Solution" from the selector that normally says just "Current Document".

User · Answer

One can access the  Find in Files  window via the drop-down menu selection and search all files in the Entire Solution  Edit   Find and Replace   Find in Files    Other  alternative is to open the  Find in Files  window via the  Standard Toolbars  button as highlighted in the below screen-short

User · Answer

I think you are talking about ctrl   shift   F  by default it should be on  look in  entire solution  and there you go

User · Answer

Press  Ctrl    Then you will see a docked window under name of  Go to all   This a picture of the  Go to all  in my IDE

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