Year: 2009

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.

I’m happy to announce the release of Entrian Source Search 1.3.1, with these enhancements:

• The results list now includes the line number of each hit – see below (thanks, Ike and Pavel).
• Fixed a shutdown crash in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1.
• Fixed an occasional timing-related startup crash when launching Visual Studio by double-clicking a .sln file (thanks, Rob).
• Permissions problems with the settings file now result in a sensible error message.
• In the crash dialog (which nobody ever sees, of course) the text of the “Send” button now changes to “Sending…” when you click it, so you know something’s happening if the crash report takes a few seconds to send.

Line numbers in the results list don’t sound very exciting, but they’re pretty useful.  For instance, they can tell you at a glance how a set of hits is distributed in a source file:

You can download Entrian Source Search 1.3.1 from the Download page.

I’m very pleased to announce the release of Entrian Source Search 1.3.0, which introduces support for Visual Studio 2010:

Like VS2010 itself, support for 2010 has Beta status – if you find any problems running Entrian Source Search under Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, please let me know.

As well as support for 2010, there are several other fixes in 1.3.0:

• The Uninstall prompt that asks “Would you also like to delete your indexes, settings, license, etc.?” now only appears once.  Previously it could appear multiple times, if you’d re-installed or upgraded Entrian Source Search (thanks, Dan).
• License keys are now emailed with a shorter line length, because some email systems could mangle the old 78-character lines (thanks, Rob).
• If there’s an error pasting your license key into the “License key” form, the clipboard is no longer locked while the error is displayed (thanks, Rob).
• Improved the error reporting when pasting in a mangled license key (thanks, Rob).
• Fixed problems with painting the File and Folder columns (thanks, Ike and Rob).
• Fixed problems with painting the backgrounds of forms (thanks, Ike).

For more information, see the product homepage, or download it here.