I’m happy to announce the release of Entrian Source Search 1.3.10, which fixes three bugs:

• Very occasionally, Source Search could throw an ArgumentOutOfRangeException when you hit Search.  Now fixed.
• When you try to view a search hit in a non-existent file (for instance because you’ve deleted a huge pile of files and the index hasn’t caught up yet), the error is reported properly, rather than giving a cryptic “Value does not fall within the expected range” message (thanks, Joe).
• When showing a search hit in a .sql file, Visual Studio no longer occasionally shows an error message when there was no error (thanks, Stoney).

You can download 1.3.10 from the usual place.

Entrian Source Search 1.3.9 introduces a “Force index refresh” command.  This isn’t necessary for most people because Source Search automatically re-indexes changed files as soon as they hit the disk, but some users whose source files are held on network drives have found that changes aren’t always picked up.  (Thanks, Christian.)

Exclusion patterns are now case insensitive (thanks, Ike).

You can download 1.3.9 from the usual place.

I’m happy to announce the release of Entrian Source Search 1.3.8, which fixes three crash bugs:

• When first running a non-English Visual Studio 2008 after installing Source Search (thanks, Jean-Michel).
• When triggering a search with the Project Properties window open (due to a known bug in Visual Studio) (thanks, Stoney).
• After typing extra spaces before or after your index root directory paths (thanks, Tom).

You can download 1.3.8 from the usual place.

I’m pleased to announce Entrian Source Search 1.3.7, which lets you export your search results (thanks, Pros):

Download from the usual place.

Entrian Source Search 1.3.6 comes with one enhancement and one bugfix:

• There’s a new hotkey Shift+Alt+= which activates the Source Search window without doing a search.
• A wildcard search that returns no hits now correctly says “No hits” rather than giving the misleading message “Please enter a search term as well as a filter”.

Download from the usual place.

• You can now filter on:
  • file:. or path:. to search just the file currently open in the Visual Studio editor
  • dir:. to search in (and under) the directory of current file
  • ext:. to search files with the same extension as the current file (thanks, Dan and Joe).
• Sorting the results list by Folder name, Filename or Extension now only takes one click, not two (thanks, Dan):
  
• Multiple +file filters act as ORs, not ANDs, so you can say +file:main.cpp +file:old_main.cpp (thanks, Anton).
• Fixed a crash when you resized the Search window so small that no Hits could be shown (thanks, Andrew).
• The timeout for incremental search is now two seconds rather than one (thanks, Dan).
• Scrolling the results list with the scrollbar now gives the list the focus, so that the mouse wheel then works (thanks, Dan).
• Improved the visual appearance of the results list column headings and the toolbar on Vista and Windows 7.
• Fixed a painting glitch that could prevent the “Partial results” warning from showing and hiding itself at the right times.

Update: Many thanks to Anton for spotting a bug in file:. filtering, which could make Source Search crash if you mistyped it as file: – that’s why we’re now at 1.3.5 (blush).

The upgrade is – as always – free for licensed users, and there’s a free 30-individual-day trial for everybody else. Download from the usual place.

Did you know about the New Releases RSS Feed?

Or the Announcement-Only Twitter Feed?

Well now you do. 

Entrian Source Search 1.3.3 brings you a whole slew of enhancements:

• You can now sort the results by folder name, by filename or by file extension (thanks, Rob and Pros):
  

• You also get incremental search within the results, so you can focus the results and then type the first few letters of a filename or folder name to jump directly to it.

• You can now control how much text appears around the actual hit in the “Hit” column, via the new “Verbosity” slider:
  

• The toolbar button labels are hidden when there isn’t enough space for them, so the buttons don’t disappear into the toolbar overflow:
  

• When the Hit column gets narrow, the context shrinks so you can still see the hit text properly.
• When the Folder column gets too narrow for the folder pathnames, the pathnames are now truncated from the left rather than the right, leaving the most important pieces visible.
• The tooltip for truncated items in the results list no longer times out (thanks, Grammarian).
• Added a workaround for a bug in early versions of .NET 2.0, which could cause an ArgumentOutOfRangeException when searching (thanks, Eldad).

As always, the upgrade is free for licensed users, and there’s a free 30-day trial for everybody else.  Download here!

This release sees two enhancements:

• The window position is once again remembered properly between sessions.  (This was partially broken in 1.3.0, because of changes needed for Visual Studio 2010, but should now work properly on all versions.)
• If a search returns so many hits that it runs out of memory, you now get a sensible error message rather than a crash:
  

If you’re getting Out Of Memory errors when searching, you might be using the wrong search syntax.  Searching for this:

  x = 1

(with spaces around the equals sign) will actually search for all the x’s, all the = signs, and all the 1’s in your code!  You need to either use a quoted phrase:

  "x = 1"

or simply omit the spaces:

  x=1

Spaces are ignored when searching, so searching for x=1 (without spaces) will find x = 1 (with spaces).

As usual, you can download this latest release from the download page.