Just a heads-up that all current Entrian products work with Visual Studio 2026. You’ll just need to run the Entrian installers again for VS 2026 to pick them up.

I’m pleased to announce the release of Entrian Source Search 1.8.5, which adds one feature and fixes some bugs:

• You can now right-click on a hit in the results list and copy the source text to the clipboard. Thanks, Jeff and Martin.
• The Dock hint now shows up properly in High Contrast mode. Thanks, Martin.
• Fixed an occasional crash in get_CommandBars when closing Visual Studio straight after starting it.
• Added Ctrl+Shift+F4 to the tab tooltip..

You can download this new release from the download page or from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

I’m pleased to announce the release of Entrian Source Search 1.8.4, which fixes these bugs with High DPI displays:

• Paint the incremental search text and the Partial Results warning in the right place on High DPI monitors. Thanks, Joe and Brett.
• Scale the busy spinner with the DPI.
• The Search box no longer gets too narrow. Thanks, Juan.
• The tab control is now always the full width of the window.
• The Welcome dialog no longer has layout glitches. Thanks, Brett.
• The initial hint that suggests docking the window no longer has layout glitches. Thanks, Brett.

…and fixes these other bugs:

• Don’t crash when loading a missing / empty / corrupt search history file. Thanks, Ian.
• Fixed occasional “Package did not load correctly” errors under Visual Studio 2022.

…and adds these features :

• Added Ctrl+Shift+F4 shortcut to close all tabs. Thanks, Jenson.
• Added an ‘Open All Files in Visual Studio’ command to the results list context menu. Thanks, Eddie.

You can download this new release from the download page or from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

I’m very pleased to announce the release of Entrian Source Search 1.8.3, which adds these features to the command line program ess.exe:

• The returned errorlevel is now more sensible:
  • 0 for success; for the search command an errorlevel of 0 means that some results were found.
  • 1 for a search with no errors but no results.
  • 2 for errors.
• Errors are now written to stderr rather than stdout
• There is now a -showcount switch, which prints the number of hits at the end of the results.

The Visual Studio extension has one new feature:

• The context menu for the results list has new command “Copy list of all filenames (without duplicates)”.

And some bugs have been squashed:

• When loading a solution in Visual Studio 2022, Source Search now correctly loads your index every time, rather than sometimes failing and telling you there’s no index loaded.
• Source files in UTF-8 with no BOM are now much more reliably detected; by default Source Search asks Windows to detect the encoding, and it often gets it wrong for UTF-8 files.
• When Windows says that a file is ASCII-encoded, Source Search now treats it as codepage 1252. If it really is ASCII then that makes no difference, and if Windows has got it wrong (which does happen) and it’s not UTF-8 then codepage 1252 is the most likely encoding.
• Source files containing Zero Width Space (U+200B) codepoints no longer crash or highlight the wrong words in the results list.

You can download this new release from the download page.

I’m pleased to announce new versions of Entrian Source Search, Entrian Attach, and Entrian Inline Watch, all of which now support Visual Studio 2022.

Entrian Source Search and Entrian Attach are shipped as single installers supporting all versions of Visual Studio from 2005 to 2022.

Entrian Inline Watch has three different versions, according to your Visual Studio version – see below.

Here are the new releases:

Entrian Source Search 1.8.2: Download / Marketplace.

Entrian Attach 1.5.1: Download / Marketplace.

Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.15: Download (all versions) / Marketplace (VS 2015-2019) / Marketplace (VS 2022).

I’m pleased to announce Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.14, which fixes a crash when editing a source file during a debugging session in recent versions of Visual Studio 2019.

You can download the release from here or get it from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

(By the way, the next release will support Visual Studio 2022, as will the next releases of Entrian Source Search and Entrian Attach.)

I’m very pleased to announce Entrian Source Search 1.7.21, which includes these fixes and features:

• Alt+Delete in the Search box now deletes any filters and leaves the plain query. Thanks, Eddie.
• Syntax colouring for search results in SQL files. Thanks, Darker.
• You can now add directory names, filenames, and file extensions to the exclusion lists from the search results context menu. Thanks, Jason.
• In the Manage Indexes dialog, you can now filter the index list by root directory.
• When the autocomplete list is visible and has a selected item, the Tab key completes that item but doesn’t trigger a search. Thanks, Nicholas.
• An unexpected exception when showing the Source Search crash dialog can no longer take down Visual Studio. Thanks, Eddie.
• Fix for CompletionStatusChanged crash when processing file system watcher events.
• Fix for rare timing-related ArgumentOutOfRangeException crash.

You can download this new release from the download page or from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

I’m pleased to announce Entrian Source Search 1.7.20, with these fixes and features:

• Lots of problems fixed with multi-screen mixed-DPI environments, which for some reason seem to have become very popular in recent weeks… Thanks to lots of people who have sent bug reports for this.
• If you run out of disk space during indexing, you’re now prompted to retry, so you can clear some space and carry on.
• When you lock a tab, the Search box now gets a grey background to make it visibly obvious that it’s locked. Thanks, Jools.
• Various obscure crash bugs fixed.

You can download this new release from the download page or from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

I’m pleased to announce Entrian Source Search 1.7.19, which fixes four bugs:

• Keystrokes in the Search box now always go to the Search box, rather than sometimes going to the current source file. Thanks, Hao, Daniel, and Avraham.
• Opening a Markdown file from the Source Search search results now works when you have Mads Kristensen’s Markdown Editor extension installed. Thanks, Kuo.
• Pressing Escape now reliably returns focus from the Source Search query box to the active document; previously you sometimes had to press Escape twice. Thanks, Mark.
• After you open a solution and Source Search restores its tabs, if you run a search and then open a new tab, your search is now properly stored in the history. Thanks, Jools.

You can download this new release from the download page or from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

I’m relieved to announce Entrian Source Search 1.7.18, which, when running under .NET Framework 4.8 within Visual Studio 2019, no longer appears as either a blank rectangle or an entertainingly transparent rectangle, through which you can see your desktop.  Thanks, Mark, Martin, and Morten.

Available for download from here or in the Visual Studio Marketplace.

Please note that the Source Search tool window won’t appear where you last left it, the first time you see it after the upgrade.  It’s effectively a new window as far as Visual Studio is concerned, so it will appear in a default place and you’ll need to dock it again.